The Rise of the Machines or the End of Attorneys?
Courtesy of Law Technology Today Of the many professions protected by regulatory oversight, the legal profession is one of them. This is informed by the fact that it has been stable since the industrial revolution and is mostly protected from external threats. The numerous protectionist professional standards and regulations that regulate decency and ethics and prevent lawyers from being overthrown serve to defend this privilege. Despite the fact that it is protected by rules and is rooted in tradition, the legal profession may not be able to withstand the widespread impact of the digital revolution for long. Fredrich Von Savigny’s "Fiction Theory of Corporations" holds that corporations have existence but lack real personality save that given by the law, which ultimately regards them as persons. Champions of artificial intelligence have mirrored this theory and equated artificial intelligence with corporations in the legal field. They claim that the existence of AI is in so...