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Legal Talk Network Posts New Digital Edge Podcast
January 21, 2016
In this episode of The Digital Edge, Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway interview Richard and Daniel Susskind about their new book and key topics within that might interest lawyers who wish to prepare for the future. They discuss a “grand bargain” concept of exclusivity, the capability of machines to replace cognitive, physical/manual, and emotional skills currently provided by human professionals, and the right questions to ask about the future of legal services. Are there any tasks that computers won’t be able to do?
Topics include:
- Society’s expectation for affordable, accessible, and reliable professional services
- Computers and artificial intelligence as a threat to the legal profession
- Professionals to be redeployed into new roles
- Embedded knowledge
- Free sharing of information through online avenues
- Incremental changes versus complete changes
- Commercial and social circumstances of the current systems
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