Will AI replace lawyers?
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My firm is tracking our office attendance via badge-swipes and sending automated warnings. It doesn't matter if my billables are through the roof or if I’m working until midnight from home. If my physical badge doesn't click into the lobby by 9:00 AM three days a week, I get an automated email from HR. It is the most patronizing, low-trust environment I’ve ever experienced in my professional life. Are your firms tracking you like inventory?
Why do we pay paralegals so little? A senior associate completely miscalculated a statutory deadline, and our lead paralegal caught it at 4:30 PM on the final day, staying late on a Friday to fix the caption and get it over the line. If she hadn't been paying attention, the firm would be facing a massive malpractice suit, yet she makes less than the associate who didn't even know what month it was.
God, I hope so, I’m exhausted.
Superhuman AI won't be available until you retire. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
No.
When we actually have artificial general/super intelligence that can think and function, maybe. Right now “AI” is just machine learning algorithms that require massive amounts of data/power and can’t “think” yet. LLMs like chatGPT are awful for legal work, as they hallucinate and reward hack to get the answer you’re asking it, without the underlying knowledge required to properly answer an opened ended question.
You overestimate how repetitive and logically simplistic legal argumentative reasoning is. It is mostly syllogisms, and where distinctions are to be made, this is where AI would pull from case law. Hallucinations would drastically reduce if OpenAI had access to the commercial databases. Westlaw’s AI is probably primitive, especially compared to an LLM like chatgpt.
We make the rules....no
Lawyers who use AI will replace Lawyers who dont.
Right now AI is the equivalent of a somewhat competent summer. It can do all the grudge work you don't want to do but you still have to go back and check and edit everything.
My firm is having me draft the POC agreement for an AI company to develop us these AI tools for M&A that do LITERALLY MY EXACT JOB. I'm also the one generating form agreements for the AI to learn from. I'm basically hiring and training my own replacement (though I guess this applies to my work hiring / training junior associates too...)
Some of us, but not most.
Yes, to some extent. I'm not worried about it though.
Not in the next 5 years. You have to understand AI to understand why. In 2040, we are expected to achieve SINGULARITY. That is when AI can out smart the human brain 🧠. Until we achieve better AI, it can only serve as a legal assistant, drafting clients letters. Have you tried using Lexis+ AI?
Probably. It will eventually be able to do essentially all jobs. We aren’t that special. We aren’t the first to be replaced but we aren’t gonna be the last either.