I’m an AI expert – certain people in law should be worried about it taking jobs

AS artificial intelligence strengthens its abilities, some people are worried their jobs may be at risk.

AI expert and senior research analyst at IDC, Jack Vernon, exclusively told The U.S. Sun which job he thinks could disappear for humans in the next decade.

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Although he has largely positive views on AI, the expert does admit that the tech could leave some jobs obsolete.

He told us: “You might be able to get rid of some lower-tier jobs.

“I think things like being a paralegal will cease to exist in the next ten to 15 years.

“If you can find relevant past cases much more easily using really effective search algorithms like ChatGPT then it kind of reduces the need for them.”

Even if AI does get to this level in the next 15 years, it probably won’t mean the end of all human lawyers.

Vernon said people will need to embrace AI and work alongside it so it can enhance their work.

He explained to The U.S Sun: “I think what will need to happen is that people who really understand say the practice of being a lawyer or an accountant, they need to get in control of the technology, which at the moment they’re not.

“It will take them to get their fingers into and build products on top of it like ChatGPT.”

This is a sentiment shared by another AI expert, Lisa Palmer.

Palmer raised concerns to The U.S. Sun about using AI as a replacement for a lawyer.

A company called DoNotPay, has developed what it describes as the “world’s first robot lawyer.”

That AI robot lawyer almost defended a human in court until other lawyers opposed the idea and the plan was recently abandoned.

Palmer told us “In the story about them rolling it out for a lay person to take advice through an earbud, I think is a bit dicey with regard to how that will turn out.

“However, if we were to put that same tool in the hands of a lawyer and be able to feed them with on-point case law in the middle of an ongoing debate in trial, I think it could be very powerful.

“So to me, it’s about making sure that we are thinking about using ChatGPT as an augmentation for humans that have the knowledge to know when it’s right, when it’s not right, and when it’s introducing risk that the AI doesn’t know.”