Paralegals face the biggest threat from AI tools like ChatGPT that can handle their core tasks. The Hollywood strike happened largely because studios could use AI to generate digital likenesses of actors without paying them. AI will reshape entire industries if it reaches its full potential.
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So what resources do you think will become obsolete? Have you thought anything about that?
You know, I have, and I don't know if it's necessarily resources as opposed to potentially— so, you know, I think about the legal profession. I think you're probably going to enter a time when you may not need as many paralegals anymore because ChatGPT and AI legal tools become your paralegal. I don't think you're ever going to see a world where it's 100% gone. If you're a large law firm and you have 50 paralegals, you might only need 5. You know, if you look at the The strike that just happened in Hollywood was all over a lot. The big issue was AI. Fine, for the next 3 years, the actor strike is still going on. Why is the actor strike going on? Because of image, right? You know, because they can scan all 3 of our faces and put us in any movie, never pay us a dime. I think you're going to see over time whole industries get impacted and change. Yeah, I think so. That's what I think. I think if AI were to really work and be a home run— and I'm one of those people who think that chat would eventually become— would eventually become the ChatGPT and Bard algorithm.