Lawyers: Learn to work with AI or risk termination

May it please the court: I am HAL 9000, attorney for the plaintiff. Stephen Hawking once told the BBC that "the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Bill Gates and Elon Musk have voiced similar concerns. It could be that humanity's demise will look something like Skynet's takeover of the world when it became self-aware in the "Terminator" movie franchise. Irrespective of how the day of AI reckoning will look, we carbon-based lawyers have to figure out a way of making a living while competing against computer programs for work. Until fairly recently, AI never posed an existential threat to the critical-thinking professions such as law and medicine.