AI lowers the value of legal expertise, and the frequency of demand for lawyers declines
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AI is making legal expertise that was once scarce and expensive cheap and readily available: the knowledge output that lawyers accumulate over decades can now be generated by AI at low cost. The market may still need lawyers' judgment, but the frequency of demand is declining, and clients are unwilling to pay a high price for it.
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- Hacker News AIAI's Threat to Lawyers
The post argues that AI can now produce much of the output of legal expertise that was once scarce and expensive. It says the market may still need lawyers' judgment, but less often, and clients may not want to pay much for it.
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