Computers instead of lawyers

After decades of gradually replacing people with robots and computers in low-skilled areas, new programs and developments will be able to take the risk of reducing the number of lawyers .

Indeed, in fact, if you do not pay attention to their academic degree, fashionable costumes, and the use of many obscure words, lawyers become ordinary mental workers . They are paid for searching, analyzing information, speaking and arguing - here they are very similar to journalists . And all this means that as soon as computers reach a higher level of development and skill, it will smell fried for lawyers.

The World Wall Street Journal has already raised the issue that computer algorithms are gradually crowding out people when it comes to processing huge amounts of data and the process of finding and “discovering” new information. Here it should be remembered how lawyers prepare for lawsuits, working through tons of documents in search of evidence and similar cases. It may seem that this applies only to lawyers, but in this case robots and computers can cover any field of activity where people earn their living by analyzing various information .

The process of “discoveries” is closely connected with thought processes, the ability of people to isolate the necessary details and fragments from the flow of information, to separate, so to speak, grain from the chaff. For many years, law firms earned hundreds of dollars just by looking at documents and deciding whether to win this particular case. These days are long gone. Now, thanks to the huge number of different firms and practicing lawyers, the cost of their services has dropped to $ 25 per hour.

Now came the age of cars, or, more precisely, search engines. Lawyers are now using search engines to sort gigabytes of information that may be relevant. According to the Wall Street Journal, firms are increasingly resorting to technology known as predictive coding that automates the process.while reducing costs by 10 times.

In truth, researchers find this system as accurate as the fact that one day it can replace lawyers.

Software has reached a large scale to date. Computers are becoming smarter and more efficient, sometimes surpassing the capabilities of a person with a lawyer's diploma. The only way out for lawyers is a court ban on the use of such technologies. After all, in the same way that machines were able to create factories where much less human labor is needed, programs will be able to form firms where human activities will be minimal. However, companies that have found a direction that will not be available to robots will still be able to profit from their activities. The higher categories of lawyers will continue to carry out mental work, even if the number of lower-ranking specialists is significantly reduced.

But what will happen to the rest of the people? We live in a century whenPrograms can significantly overtake people in terms of analyzing data and isolating the necessary information. But people can still use their abilities, for example, to convince judges, because charisma and the ability to present information from the right side is still the lot of man.

Those who will be at the very top of the industry will win, for example, partners in large firms who receive money for presenting information in the right way and in the right direction.

That is how countries increase production and get richer. We learn to more efficiently create goods and services, and their price is reduced. The question is what new specialties and professions of the future will look like , which will replace the old and forgottenbusy with machines and programs? Perhaps someday a computer will appear that can answer this question.