alt Hacker News> Why pay an expensive architect to design your new office building, when AI will do it for peanuts? Why pay an expensive lawyer to review your contract? Why pay a doctor, etc.
All of those jobs are mandated by law to done by accredited and liable humans.
> All of those jobs are mandated by law to done by accredited and liable humans.
Good point. The jobs I listed will be protected for a little while due to statutory limitations. At first, firms will have one AI-augmented lawyer take on the work of a dozen lawyers. Of course his salary won't increase, and the others will be fired. Eventually, he'll just be rubber-stamping the AI's results, purely for the sake of compliance. Then the ruling class will petition the legislature to change the law in the name of "efficiency," and that will be the end of that.
Meanwhile, programmers have no such protection. Nor do customer service agents, secretaries, publishers, copywriters, banker, office managers. There is no safety net.