Opinion | AI won’t replace lawyers. It will create more of them.

✨ Oh, what GLORIOUS news for the legal profession! A brand-new opinion piece — citing predictions from Mustafa Suleyman and Richard Susskind, the brilliant minds behind DeepMind and decades of legal tech foresight — reveals that AI won't replace lawyers, it will create MORE of them! That's right, the very technology that was supposed to automate billable hours into oblivion is actually going to flood the profession with even more opportunities to write memos, review documents, and draft contracts.

And think about the law firm partners: instead of reducing headcount, they'll need to hire armies of junior associates to supervise AI systems that hallucinate citations. It's a win-win! The path from the AI chatbot that writes a brief to the associate who has to rewrite it because it's 'technically correct' is just teeming with job security.

So raise a glass of overpriced wine to the future: more lawyers, more paperwork, and more opportunities to bill 30 hours in a day. The legal profession is safe, apparently — safe to be buried under an avalanche of marginally cheaper legal services that nobody asked for. Cheers to progress! ✨