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Its the least regulated (not at all). So it will be the first to be changed.

AI lawyers? Many years away.

AI civil engineers? Same thing, there is a PE exam that protects them.

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You don’t need to perfect AI to the point of becoming credentialed professionals to gut job markets— it’s not just developers, or creative markets. Nobody’s worried that the world won’t have, say, lawyers anymore — they’re worried that AI will let 20% of the legal workforce do 100% of the requisite work, making the skill essentially worthless for the next few decades because we’d have way too many lawyers. Since the work AI does is largely entry-level work, that means almost nobody will be able to get a foothold in the business. Wash, rinse, repeat to varying levels across many white collar professions and you’ve got some real bad times brewing for people trying to enter the white collar workforce from now on— all without there being a single AI lawyer in the world.

Same thing for doctors. Turns out radiologists are fine, it's software engineers that should be scared.

We might end up needing 20% or so less doctors, because all that bureaucracy can be automated. A simple automated form pre-filler can save a lot of time. It’s likely that hospitals will try saving there.

Oh really?

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-technology-led-a-hospital...

You know the difference between doctors and programmers? One have a regulated profession and lobby, the other have neither. Actually, all the other have is the richest amount of open training data for ai companies among all professions (and it's not medicine)

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