"When Baker McKenzie announced plans to cut roughly 700 business services staff, the firm pegged some of the blame squarely on AI, feeding into the technology-fueled paranoia surrounding artificial intelligence. It certainly doesn't help that the AI hype cycle turns on tech gurus juicing up their VC sugar daddies with promises that AI will replace human workers any moment now,"
"While the developers hustling for VC cash to heap upon the AI furnace will tell you that "agentic" AI is new and revolutionary, the reality is that agents are still stumbling with multi-stage tasks and the more people try to aim them at higher-level thinking, the more time the "human in the loop" spends fixing the mistakes generated along the way."
"As bots go, AI is charting a sci-fi future path closer to Star Wars. He's cute and personable and can perform a lot of useful technical tasks, but R2D2 is more or less defeated by a flight of stairs. These AI tools will accelerate your summaries and timelines, but pump the brakes before handing it a case file and turning it loose."
Baker McKenzie announced cuts of roughly 700 business services staff and attributed some of the reductions to AI. Widespread AI hype promises rapid worker replacement despite agents frequently failing at complex, multi-stage tasks and producing hallucinations. Developers pitch "agentic" AI, but real systems require substantial human-in-the-loop correction, increasing oversight time. AI is changing legal workflows by accelerating summaries and timelines and improving attorney efficiency, yet it cannot autonomously handle case files or higher-level legal reasoning. Firms risk misattributing management decisions to technology, and attorney anxiety persists about potential role changes depending on firm strategy.
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