Countries of the Middle East, aka Arabian Gulf region, seem to have identified artificial intelligence (AI) as the next Big Thing that they want to control, but early observations of this sort is making me uneasy:
Rapid advances in AI are reshaping Gulf law firms, with hiring shifting towards experienced, tech-savvy lawyers as routine junior work is increasingly automated. …
“AI impact has been on tasks rather than roles,” said Maisa Maarouf, head of HR at BSA Law, which is already using AI for legal research, document review, contract analysis and drafting tasks.
“The development of junior lawyers requires extensive training for these tasks, which means firms now need to rethink how they develop talent while ensuring lawyers still gain the judgment and experience that cannot be automated,” Maarouf said. …
Routine, junior-level work that once absorbed a lot of time, such as basic contract review, preliminary research or document comparison, is increasingly handled by legal tech. [Arabian Gulf Business Insight]
Leaders are hardly ever just born; they come up through the ranks, learning the details as well as the big picture as they progress. For comparison, often a failson is just dumped into a leadership position and melts into a puddle of incompetence Because They Don’t Know What To Do. Or worse, they make decisions and think they’re so good that the decisions are also inevitably good.
That’s how the above description sounds, doesn’t it? Rather than using routine work to train future leaders in the myriad details that separate winners from losers, “legal tech” takes care of it, depriving future leaders of that knowledge.
Is this a problem, perhaps future tense, for Western Civ? Will we be seeing Middle Eastern nations suddenly collapsing as leadership becomes ineffective, just days before we do so as well?
