AI will create as many legal jobs as it destroys, says Seyfarth Shaw

Warnings that robots will make many lawyers redundant should not be taken too seriously, according to Keith Grady - the Lean Law Evangelist at Seyfarth Shaw, one of the firms at the forefront of legal technology.

Mr Grady said: 'Technology will replace many tasks performed by knowledge workers. But, for those in the legal industry, each technological change opens at least as many new questions as it closes. The trick is not to challenge technology, but to embrace change and learn how to evolve with it.' 

The logic of algorithms

Predictions that 80% of business processes would be reinvented or otherwise digitalised in five years should be taken with 'a grain of salt', he added. He went on to suggest that algorithms do not make decisions in the same way that human beings do - and that they are unlikely to drive out the need for substantial human input. Source: Law Fuel

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