Opinion | AI isn’t the end of the legal profession. It’s the future.

Damien Charlotin, a senior research fellow at HEC Paris and author of the Substack “Artificial Authority,” critiques the notion that lawyers will be drastically impacted by artificial intelligence (AI) in the near future.
The legal profession often serves as a focal point when discussing AI’s influence on white-collar jobs.
Projections from technologists like Mustafa Suleyman and Richard Susskind suggest rapid and complete automation of legal tasks, with Suleyman predicting AI taking over within 12 to 18 months and Susskind suggesting a complete replacement by 2035.
New AI tools, such as those from Anthropic expanding their legal assistant services, are emerging, fueling the perception that AI will transform or even replace traditional legal practice.
Charlotin challenges the assumption that AI will lead to the extinction of lawyers by the significant complexities and nuances that remain irreducible by AI.