Not every doctor and lawyer job will be relegated to autonomous work, but a great deal of background research way very well be. Those professions won't go away, but the demand for that sort of labor will likely fall significantly.

Rather than teams full of low level lawyers pouring through statutes and decisions, an AI program will do that work, filter it to a single human 'quality-checker' who will then send it off to the lawyer arguing the case. A couple lawyers and a program will potentially be able to do the work that previously required a full team.

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Posted by dbeck

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Posted on 8/7/17 at 8:16 pm to funnystuff

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A couple lawyers and a program will potentially be able to do the work that previously required a full team.

That's what people don't understand, it won't take every job being automated to cause economic upheaval.

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Posted by lsufball19

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Posted on 8/8/17 at 1:09 am to funnystuff

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Not every doctor and lawyer job will be relegated to autonomous work, but a great deal of background research way very well be. Those professions won't go away, but the demand for that sort of labor will likely fall significantly.

So clerks and paralegals will be less important. It wasn't that long ago that lawyers had to do case law research in books, rely on snail mail and the telephone, type pleadings on a typewriter. The advancements of the last 20 years has made a lawyers life so much easier to get tasks done much more quickly, yet the demand for lawyers hasn't decreased because it involves critical thinking and subjectivity that automation will not be able to do.

This post was edited on 8/8/17 at 1:13 am

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