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19 August 2026

Judges may be the only survivors of law’s AI carnage: futurist

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Judges may be the only survivors of law’s AI carnage: futurist

After a legal win over real lawyers using artificial intelligence, Greg Baker gives his predictions for which jobs will be wiped out, and which can’t be replaced by bots.

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