AI may automate much of the routine work currently done by junior lawyers, consultants, bankers, and advertisers.
"A chunk of what the people at the bottom of the pyramid were doing—what happens to that? The only thing you can say is that, if you have never worked at a law firm or at Bain, BCG, or McKinsey, you are probably not going to have a good idea of how this works."
Benedict Evans (technology analyst, writer, and former a16z partner).
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From a16z YouTube channel (link in comment)
Blackstone President and COO Jon Gray made this same point few months back.
Any rule-based businesses, like accounting, legal, finance, will be completely disrupted by AI. 🎯
e.g. JPMorgan dropped proxy advisors for shareholder votes, replacing them with AI.
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Rule-based work isn't a career anymore. It's a prompt.
In every rule-based profession, humans are now the slow, expensive, error-prone option.
Claude Opus 5 got 20 for 20 at 100% and wrapped each task in minutes, while 12 licensed CPAs landed anywhere from 0% to about 90%, with several running out the 3-hour clock.
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