Here We Go Again...There Is No Competition Between AI And Lawyers

I understand the urge to create conflict in order to tell a story. However, I grow tired of reading predictions that machines will someday replace lawyers. As I have said often, machines and computers and AI, Oh My, will act as augmenters for real lawyers, and real lawyers will continue to offer legal advice, and to represent clients. This argument could have been made with any technological invention. Did the invention of the telephone replace lawyers or legal assistants?