Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.
That’s the fatal flaw with AI. If you can replace the base-level workers in a skilled field, competition will lead to most places doing that. 5-10 years later, the industry has a shortage of mid-level workers.
Obviously as AI improves at clerking, it gradually works it’s way up the ladder, for a while we’ll have our VIBE lawyers until they can be fully replaced with full AI lawyers, and then repeat the process for judges.
Even if it worked perfectly… isn’t clerking the way future attorneys and judges are supposed to get experience?
That’s the fatal flaw with AI. If you can replace the base-level workers in a skilled field, competition will lead to most places doing that. 5-10 years later, the industry has a shortage of mid-level workers.
Obviously as AI improves at clerking, it gradually works it’s way up the ladder, for a while we’ll have our VIBE lawyers until they can be fully replaced with full AI lawyers, and then repeat the process for judges.
The hellscape we always wanted.