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The End of Lawyers, Period.

“Our expectation is that, over time—by which we mean decades rather than overnight—there will be technological unemployment in the professions. In other words, there will not be sufficient growth in the types of professional task in which people, not machines, have the advantage to keep most professionals in full employment.”

Similar pronouncements in other sectors has given rise to a general sense of automation anxiety, where worries of a jobless future lead to headlines like “A World Without Work” that in turn engender further headlines like “Americans Are More Afraid of Robots Than Death.”

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