I agree with your point. But what I think is interesting about legal work is not that they could/couldn’t be automated or that AI usage could be detected. I think that lawyers will see the job automation coming and take legal action to protect themselves such that AI is not legally allowed to be used for some key legal tasks, such that they ~all keep their jobs
The reason I’m skeptical of this is that it doesn’t seem like you could enforce a law against using AI for legal research. As much as lawyers might want to ban this as a group, individually they all have strong incentives to use AI anyway and just not admit it.
Although this assumes doing research and coming up with arguments is most of their job. It could be that most of their job is harder to do secretly, like meeting with clients and making arguments in court.
I agree with your point. But what I think is interesting about legal work is not that they could/couldn’t be automated or that AI usage could be detected. I think that lawyers will see the job automation coming and take legal action to protect themselves such that AI is not legally allowed to be used for some key legal tasks, such that they ~all keep their jobs
The reason I’m skeptical of this is that it doesn’t seem like you could enforce a law against using AI for legal research. As much as lawyers might want to ban this as a group, individually they all have strong incentives to use AI anyway and just not admit it.
Although this assumes doing research and coming up with arguments is most of their job. It could be that most of their job is harder to do secretly, like meeting with clients and making arguments in court.