Yeah bro, its been three years. We are just beginning. We will replace the vast majority of professional service workers in 10 years including lawyers as Ai shifts to local and moves away from the cloud.

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sarchertech 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If we wipe out the vast majority of white collar jobs in just 10 years, we’re talking complete economic collapse.

No society can possibly absorb that kind of disruption over such a short time.

Also even assuming AI could completely replace lawyers. Lawyers control the legislature. They may not be able to stop your local model from telling you how to do something, but they can stop you from actually doing it without a lawyer.

	▲	nine_k 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Even subway train operators in NYC, whose job can be safely automated away, and has been for like 20 years, were able to legally mandate their jobs. I bet lawyers will, too. But the numbers of junior partners, and of paralegals, will dwindle.
	▲	uxhacker an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But then will we not need more judges and courts?

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overgard 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm glad we have intelligent, mature, uncorrupted politicians who will be able to work together to make sure that this doesn't cause a depression so profound that the entire economy ceases to be viable.

Oh..

	▲	fragmede 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hey. I voted for the other one.

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gamblor956 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lawyers, doctors, and accountants aren't just paid to be knowledge workers.

They're paid to accept responsibility for when they fuck up (even when it's not intentional).

Programmers aren't held responsible for their screw-ups. If they were, software wouldn't be the buggy mess it is today.

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coldtea 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's 70% of the population living in ghettos and the economy collapsing through lack of people with disposable income with extra steps.