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Only one type of lawyer will survive the AI wipeout

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Sorry link is paywalled A short part of the articale. The computer science lecturer who used artificial intelligence to beat Macquarie University in an industrial relations stoush has a grim summary of the future of the legal profession: carnage.

Greg Baker caused a stir when he used AI agents to run a successful case against the real lawyers representing the university in the Fair Work Commission.

Greg Baker spends his time contemplating the future of work.

In what is the first known instance of a self-represented litigant successfully using AI – certainly in Australia – Baker won the right to have his casual teaching role converted to a permanent part-time position. ......

In the articale, He predicts that while judges will still be needed, there will not be not much role for lawyers

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