(p.19) When we put aside speciesism and appreciate the massive injustices in our systems of criminal justice, we can't help being excited about the positive changes artificial general intelligence might permit. Yes, some attorneys-maybe even many or most attorneys-might have to find different jobs, realistically meaning that fewer will go into these lines of work. This will be disruptive. But just like AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] should bring about a world of fewer human bankers, doctors, and dentists, if these changes bring more accurate and fair criminal justice, and if they are not otherwise intrinsically harmful, they are to be eagerly...

(p.215) What lawyers may think of as AI are new programs that promise to slash the number of billable hours their firms can work, such as the kind of program at work at JP Morgan, which the bank claims has saved 360,000 hours of work by lawyers and loan officers who now let computers interpret (to an extent) commercial loan agreements." That sounds like a lot of jobs and it is, but consider: for a 40-hour per week employee with three weeks' vacation, this many hours eliminated comes to 183 person years of work. In a company the size ofJP Morgan,...