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I’m more worried about what follows 2-3 steps after AI takes our jobs…
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lol yeah i tend to think that if we’re at the point at which ai has completely taken our jobs, we probably have potentially bigger problems to worry about…
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When these LLMs start developing agency like a truly “intelligent” being, I’ll start losing sleep over AI. Until then, I’m fully embracing and incorporating AI into my workflow to become more efficient and effective at my job. So long as these things require expert input and oversight to produce decent results, there’s going to be demand for such experts. So…work at becoming that expert! There’s no other rational option at this point, so what’s the point in doomering/catastrophizing over it?
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Yeah agreed
It's not really that good at doing smart, non-formulaic, strategic thinking... yet. We're good for a little while. Society will probably have enormous growing pains as jobs are eliminated, catastrophic for many, and K shaped will be an understatement.
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I just used Legora for the first time today. Asked for it to beef up my buy-side APA. It added concepts the client had not requested and added one provision that would favorite the seller, not buyer, but generally it did a great job. I’m terrified.
I agree this will be a huge issue. I’ve got a client that uses it for their key commercial agreements. It’s basically dueling LLMs and it’s a mess.
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For the same reasons booby traps aren’t permitted. The system requires a human’s judgment. Not because it’s better than a machine, but because “what would a human have done” is the standard.
How do your standards of “willful misconduct” “gross negligence” or “fraud” apply with no human in the loop, just a pre-programmed machine that can’t reason? You can’t depose it, and it doesn’t send emails.
You can’t fire an AI tool or sue it for malpractice. A company’s D&O policy ain’t gonna cover Execs following AI faulty recommendations (even if a crystal ball showed the human lawyer would have made the same recommendation).
It also doesn’t have all the needed data to fully assess. It can’t tell you what oral arguments swayed a judge (nor what was effective in confidential mediation/arbitration). Nor is a layperson (including in-house generalist) able to provide sufficient detailed prompts to get accurate specialist work product out of it. It’s great when you know the material and are using it as a shortcut, but can be disastrous when you don’t have the gut to check it.
If you want to feel more existentially optimistic, or confident, watch the documentary Transcedent Man. It was filmed mostly in like 2009/2010 and it’s incredible how sci fi it all felt back then. And now many pieces are coming true. Makes me feel confident that the post scarcity, FALC kinds of economics are more likely than a terminator or a “well all be broke and homeless” scenario.
It might get there one day, but as someone mentioned the tech is pretty bad right now for what Biglaw firms needs. We have a few years before the apocalypse happens.