Posted on 12/06/2014 5:23:04 PM PST by RoosterRedux
A new report looks at the state of the legal profession in 2030, and it doesn't look too pretty as far as employment is concerned, io9 reports.
"It is no longer unrealistic to consider that workplace robots and their AI processing systems could reach the point of general production by 2030," the report, by Jomati Consultants, says.
And those robots could eventually "do the work of a dozen low-level associates. They would not get tired. They would not seek advancement (or) pay rises." A firm's upper echelons would still be populated by actual human lawyers, but the need for associates would shrink dramatically.
As such, legal firms could see a "structural collapse," Legal Futures reports. Those in the top rungs of firms would offer "real understanding and human insight" to clients, the report says, and it suggests that because the top partners of 2030 are currently in their 30s, they're likely to push the AI business model.
All these changes will apply most to "very large, high-value commercial firms," whereas smaller, specialist firms might see less of an impact, the report finds. Artificial intelligence has already had a big effect on law firms, as the New York Times reported in 2011.
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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of professionals.
Can we just program the freakin’ robots to hunt down lawyers?
Until we start having to appear before robot judges
Robots or a gang of vicious cut-throat highwaymen.
Can’t happen. Robots are too honest and would apply the law fairly. Lawyers don’t.
And then robot police, and then we really do rage against the machine.
Oh wait, they’re not already vile evil mind-numbed robots?
Who knew?
oh well, it was a good scam while it lasted?
The epidimy of robot takeover of the legal profession will be drones.
The drones will be forever on patrol monitoring EMT channels. They will immediately be diverted to an auto wreck to begin photographing and will chase the ambulance to the Emergency room.
Emergency rooms will need to establish an air traffic control robot controller to handle all the ambulance chasing robot drones.
Maybe the lawyers could go seek work as...
roofers
truck-drivers
dry-wall specialists
taxi-drivers
farm laborers
restaurant staff
plumbers
Oh, wait, now we have Mexicans and even more recently, Central American KIDS for all those.
Never mind.
Mind numb robots for congress. Cool!
Uh...good.
Hey Bender do you want be lawyer
What’s the difference between a dead possum in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? You see skid marks in front of the possum.
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> The first thing they’d do is find loopholes in Asimov’s three rules.
And start self-replicating.
Who programs the robot lawyers?
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