The article says stuff that can easily describe the legal profession too. For example:
"Pulling all-nighters to assemble PowerPoint presentations. Punching numbers into Excel spreadsheets. Finessing the language on esoteric financial documents that may never be read by another soul."
"There are jokes among junior bankers that the most common tasks of the job involve dragging icons from one side of a document to another, only to be asked to replace the icon over and again."
Now, law firm-ites are also seen as glamorous like investment bankers: expensive cars and watches, champagne at fancy parties, beautiful WAGs. But is their work also similarly routine and replaceable as AI? In fact, are they even MORE replaceable than investment bankers?
Kaunsi beautiful WAG. What expensive cars. Sab log to Nexon/Creta chala rahe hain. Champagne bhi Gurgaon se sasti wali lete hain. Suits thodi chal raha hai.
If you have only seen Delhi HC/SC canteen, and work out of some chamber in a Defence Colony basement then you've only seen Creta/Nexon. Don't speak for a profession that at the top end is among the most glamourous in the world. neeti Bagh, Sunder Nagar, Taj suites, First Class airtravel (occasional private jet), Machine/apple only offices and so on. Where clients gift Rolexes to their trusted rainmakers.
Mike cycle chalata tha aur Harvey ek hire limo cab mein ghumta tha shayad client expense pe. Haan, Harvey thoda shaukeen bhi tha- ek vintage gadi kabhi kabhi chalata tha, in his midlife crisis scenes!
Less than 50% work can be replaced by AI. There are unique real world situations are to be dealt with. The way weak AI is growing and its experiments dont give much hope for a super AI. Super AI is basically scifi at this point. Until that happens noone is being replaced unless they are literal clerks doing formatting and spell check
"Pulling all-nighters to assemble PowerPoint presentations. Punching numbers into Excel spreadsheets. Finessing the language on esoteric financial documents that may never be read by another soul."
"There are jokes among junior bankers that the most common tasks of the job involve dragging icons from one side of a document to another, only to be asked to replace the icon over and again."
Now, law firm-ites are also seen as glamorous like investment bankers: expensive cars and watches, champagne at fancy parties, beautiful WAGs. But is their work also similarly routine and replaceable as AI? In fact, are they even MORE replaceable than investment bankers?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/business/investment-banking-jobs-artificial-intelligence.html