You won’t get replaced. You’ll get skipped.

The real AI risk is subtler than losing your job — and a book from 1988 saw it coming.

Everyone keeps asking whether AI will replace lawyers. It’s the wrong question.

A better one comes from a book written in 1988, long before anyone worried about ChatGPT. The sociologist Andrew Abbott wrote The System of Professions, and his framework explains what’s happening to law right now better than most of the AI commentary you’ll read this year.

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