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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by labster on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:06PM (#16840709)
I don't. They'll just pass a law to make robot lawyers illegal. Rent seeking can be a powerful force against automation.
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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by contingencies on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:12PM (#16840728)
It will play out like H&R Block in accounting. One firm will aggressively automate most procedural, standard advisory and contract law, undercutting the rest. They will be joined by others for the race to the bottom. The beginnings already exist. https://medium.com/legal-tech/legal-tech-startups-9755b18f93...

PS. Any legal firm without a strategy here can hire me (at lawyer rates) to tell them how to get with the program. ;)

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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by paulddraper on Sunday April 15, 2018 @12:53PM (#16843490)
And yet TurboTax exists.

Why did no one pass a law against "robot accountants"?

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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by PhasmaFelis on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:35PM (#16840801)
> They'll just pass a law to make robot lawyers illegal.

You make that sound like a bad thing.

God knows humans fuck a lot of things up. And a lot of legal professions are mostly busywork, which I assume AI can help with. But allowing machines to literally rule us is a long, long way from a good idea, and that's essentially what will happen if you let AI take over e.g. trial lawyering.

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