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If we wipe out the vast majority of white collar jobs in just 10 years, we’re talking complete economic collapse.

No society can possibly absorb that kind of disruption over such a short time.

Also even assuming AI could completely replace lawyers. Lawyers control the legislature. They may not be able to stop your local model from telling you how to do something, but they can stop you from actually doing it without a lawyer.

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Even subway train operators in NYC, whose job can be safely automated away, and has been for like 20 years, were able to legally mandate their jobs. I bet lawyers will, too. But the numbers of junior partners, and of paralegals, will dwindle.

But then will we not need more judges and courts?

Correct, which is why we will have the first worldwide revolution as people realize their democracies are fake, they are simply enslaved by capitalists; which is exactly what they told us Commies would do.

The chances of all of those revolutions not touching off world war 3 and decimating infrastructure and trade to the point that we can’t produce the chips to run AI is what now?

Very low. I didn't say French Revolution. Political swing away from capitalism towards socialism.

You said “the fist world wide revolution”, which implies a bit more than a swing toward socialism.

My guess is we have a low chance of peacefully transitioning to socialism if we lose 40% of jobs in under a decade.

Someone is going to take advantage of that the way Hitler did.

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