
"Do you really think we're going to get rid of lawyers?" former Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently asked, warning that artificial intelligence will complicate legal work—not eliminate it.
During a TED interview in Vancouver in April , he called AI a "career-defining" shift. Schmidt urged every industry to "adopt it, and adopt it fast." He argued that AI is already transforming office environments, clinics and courtrooms by making jobs "more sophisticated, not quickly obsolete."