It’s no longer just factory workers and long-haul truck drivers at risk of being replaced by robots. Now lawyers could be automated out of work, too.
Benjamin Alarie, a law professor at the University of Toronto, was startled to learn, two years ago, that the school’s computer science students planned to “disrupt” his lucrative, centuries-old profession with artificial intelligence, or AI. But the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.
Now he’s leading the march of the machines into oak-panelled law offices right across the country—no doubt to the chagrin of thousands of lawyers (and perhaps a few former students) whose jobs could soon be at risk.
Chris Sorensen – Macleans.ca – January 16, 2017.
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