Opinion | AI will not replace lawyers. There will be more of them.

Damien Charlotin is a Senior Research Fellow at HEC Paris and author of the “Artificial Authority” substack.

Too bad for lawyers: Whenever people want to dramatize the impact of artificial intelligence on office work, they tend to turn to the legal profession, like Exhibit A. Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, said in February that legal tasks “will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” A headline in the March commentary by Richard Susskind, an expert on the intersection of technology and law, said: “Artificial intelligence could replace traditional lawyers by 2035.” And as newer, more advanced tools come onto the market that promise to revolutionize the profession – Anthropic recently expanded the legal offerings of its AI assistant – it’s easy to assume that lawyers are at risk of extinction.