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mullingitoveryesterday at 6:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

I stand by my prediction that when AI comes for the lawyers' jobs, that's when suddenly we'll have the Butlerian Jihad.


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Muromecyesterday at 11:30 PM

You can't exactly start the jihad being a lawyer.

EvanAndersonyesterday at 8:03 PM

Not lawyers-- judges. Judges, in my experience, don't take kindly to anything or anyone infringing on their power.

Edit: I've met a ton of attorneys who are bullish on LLMs preparing work for them (kinda like robo-paralegals, albeit ones apt to spout bullshit). Judges, being human (and lazy by dint of evolution), would probably lean on LLM-based analysis too. I cannot imagine they'd ever stand by and let decisions be made by a non-judge.

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NoMoreNicksLeftyesterday at 6:28 PM

If there were a particular subset of people that were the absolute least likely to ever revolt against anything it could be no one other than the lawyers. They've trained their entire careers to play by rules so esoteric that people like us need to hire them just to interact with those rules safely.

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