6. Lawyers and Paralegals
While paralegals and legal administrators are not literal translators, they also have the important job of receiving complex legal documents and converting them into summaries and briefs. As you can already assume, summarizing legal documents into digestible briefs is not an easy task. However, AI has also been useful there.
ChatGPT and its counterparts can easily create legal briefs and even lawsuits out of data fed to them. One doesn’t even need to provide a format as the bot is already up to date with it. However, even if you do, it will dish out all manner of legal documents in a jiffy. And for a working paralegal who focuses on lawsuit research and creation, draft making, and case development, this smells like trouble.
Users on the internet have already started to leverage ChatGPT for drafting lawsuits against individuals and companies. This is worrying as ChatGPT does under a minute which might normally take a few days. Furthermore, AI has even tried to dive into real life with an AI robot coming very close to fighting a court case. While the idea was finally scraped, combined with its already growing capability to create content, it spells trouble for jobs in the legal sector.
