Yes I don’t think my BIL was suggesting that all those junior lawyers would not have a job , he’s just suggesting that AI will take a lot of jobs away from what is effectively “ grunt work “.I don’t think it will be that bad because AI doesn’t actually think. All it really does is glorified quantitative analysis ( can cross reference huge amounts of data ( on a massive!!!scale) and look for correlation etc, it runs off simple algebra based principles. Human thinking for most 🙂 is significantly more sophisticated than this. In regards to your example someone will need to critique the research and make sure it is revelant etc. Juniors will be needed to do some type of sh!t Kicker tasks still remaining at a lower cost than fully trained seniors…. Law firms will need up and coming lawyers or there will be no future for the business. Remember AI doesn’t actually really think and that’s not likely to change anytime soon despite the hype… it will just get faster and more powerful at what it does….
To be honest I’m a technical nerd , I can log on here and type away , do a word document but that’s about it so what it can do and can’t do I have no idea but he’s convinced it’s going to eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs within the next 10 years.