Lawyers oppose AI because automation threatens their copy-paste work
Joshua Browder · The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay · Mar 1, 2023 · at 22:56
Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay, discusses why traditional legal institutions and lawyers actively oppose AI tools entering the legal field.
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“Lawyers really don't want this technology to move forward that much because they realize that a lot of their job is copying and pasting documents. Not all lawyers are like that, but some of them are. And if AI can just do that and replace them, it puts a lot of them out of work.”
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