A father tells his daughter paralegal work will vanish to AI, then argues that intelligence alone won't protect any job. He's teaching his kids to stay flexible, learn new tools fast, and focus on creating value instead of just doing tasks.
My daughter recently said to me, "Hey dad, I think that I might wanna become a paralegal." I said, full stop, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's like the first thing that's gonna be removed, right, from it. If this was 20 years ago, I would say, you know, that would be a great profession for you. I said, but in light of AI, in light of uploading documents and the logic behind the technology, paralegals are probably one of the first professions that are gonna become obsolete. Like, it's so abundantly obvious that that's the case. And so I'm looking a lot of it with respect to how do I equip my children to become employable in this future world. I believe that the attribute that is the most important— it used to be intelligence, being smart, you know, you could get a great job. AI is smarter than the vast majority of the population. Even the Nobel Prize-winning laureates, they use AI as a mechanism to check what they're doing and find stuff and doing great things with it. And so intelligence really doesn't matter anymore. What matters in today's world is being flexible and adaptable to a changing world. What I'm doing with my kids is trying to teach them to adapt to this changing world. And I'm also, one of the big things that I'm trying to teach them too is how do you become a net producer for the world instead of a net consumer? What I'm trying to do is in the same vein, I already, you know, I don't need to go back in to do AI. Like I can figure it out, but if I can teach my kids how to do it and teach people how to adapt, like my team, like I'm setting them up for success in the future in anything that they do.
