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{{a|devil| | {{a|devil|{{Subtable|[[File:Zen.jpg|450px|frameless|center]]<center>“Sir! Sir! I’ve found an [[indemnity]]!”</center>}}}}Luminaries, [[thought leader]]s and [[digital prophet]]s will tell you that machines can now read and annotate contracts, such that yon poor [[legal eagles]] are no longer needed and will shortly have no choice but to work as [[technological unemployment|pleasure droids]] for our transistor-based overlords. | ||
}}Luminaries, [[thought leader]]s and [[digital prophet]]s will tell you that machines can now read and annotate contracts, such that yon poor [[legal eagles]] are no longer needed and will shortly have no choice but to work as [[technological unemployment|pleasure droids]] for our transistor-based overlords. | |||
Quoth one such [[digital prophet]]: | Quoth one such [[digital prophet]]: | ||
:''... machines are also increasingly encroaching on tasks that, until now, have required a human ability to think and reason. In the legal sphere, for example, J. P. Morgan has developed a system that reviews commercial [[loan|loan agreements]]. It does in a few seconds what would have required, they estimate, about 360,000 hours of human lawyer time.'' | :''... machines are also increasingly encroaching on tasks that, until now, have required a human ability to think and reason. In the legal sphere, for example, J. P. Morgan has developed a system that reviews commercial [[loan|loan agreements]]. It does in a few seconds what would have required, they estimate, about 360,000 hours of human lawyer time.''<ref>{{author|Daniel Susskind}}, {{br|A World Without Work}}. Not a fan, to be honest.</ref> | ||
''Three hundred and sixty thousand hours of professional work carried out in seconds''. Christ on a bike! Sounds — literally — incredible, doesn’t it? Preternaturally intelligent silicon minds scanning gigabytes of text in an instant, extracting all material quirks and issues, like Marvin the Paranoid Android, or Zen from ''Blake’s Seven''. | ''Three hundred and sixty thousand hours of professional work carried out in seconds''. Christ on a bike! Sounds — literally — incredible, doesn’t it? Preternaturally intelligent silicon minds scanning gigabytes of text in an instant, extracting all material quirks and issues, like Marvin the Paranoid Android, or Zen from ''Blake’s Seven''. |