Frank Levy, HCP visiting faculty, was asked to comment on the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to take over entire industries—in this case, legal work.

In a New York Times article, Levy countered the fears that lawyers may one day be necessary:

“There is this popular view that if you can automate one piece of the work, the rest of the job is toast. That’s just not true, or only rarely the case.”

Levy and coauthor Dana Remus wrote an associated paper on whether robots could be lawyers, published in SSRN.

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