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Worries about influence of AI change from worry of job losses to issues about skilled improvement, report says
July 2, 2025, 8:53 am CDT
Twenty-four % of authorized and different professionals surveyed by Thomson Reuters are fearful that overreliance on synthetic intelligence could have a destructive impact on skilled improvement. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Twenty-four % of authorized and different professionals surveyed by Thomson Reuters are fearful that overreliance on synthetic intelligence could have a destructive impact on skilled improvement.
The 2025 Way forward for Professionals report by Thomson Reuters, obtainable right here, stated the issues have modified from the early days of AI, when the troubles have been about widespread job losses and malicious use of AI.
Malicious use stays a priority, expressed by 14% of survey respondents. Fifteen % have been involved about privateness, confidentiality and transparency, whereas 13% have been involved about information safety implications.
The report relies on a survey of two,275 professionals throughout authorized, danger, compliance, tax, accounting, audit and commerce professions from greater than 50 nations, in response to a June 26 press launch. The professionals embody 1,363 authorized professionals in regulation companies, in-house roles and authorities positions, Regulation.com reviews.
Steven Assie, the overall supervisor of world and huge companies at Thomson Reuters, instructed Regulation.com that the issues fluctuate by technology. Thirty-seven % of child boomer attorneys cited lack of skilled ability improvement as their No. 1 concern, in comparison with simply 14% of Era Z attorneys, Assie stated.
AI can now create a primary draft of a doc that will have fallen to a junior agency affiliate previously, Assie instructed Regulation.com.
“Some companies are altering their coaching course of,” he stated. “Additionally they acknowledge that the talents required by the trendy lawyer could also be completely different. Legal professionals will nonetheless want to use technical judgment however will likely be making use of this to reviewing AI outputs, somewhat than creating the primary draft from scratch.”
Eighty % of the survey respondents assume that AI could have a excessive and even transformational influence their
occupation inside 5 years—however 30% say their organizations are shifting too slowly to undertake AI, in response to the press launch and the report.
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