u/AutomaticBoss6285 — reddlx

(Outside of US)

My firm has been pushing the AI tools heavily for a while. I understand there’s been a big investment made in these tools but from letting go of associates, hiring less and less interns and catching the partners saying stuff like “what do we need them for, we have Harvey”, it’s looking really insane.
Now they’ve added the AI usage as a KPI for evaluation purposes (i.e, logging “Harvey hours” whatever that means, ai newsletters and of the sorts, I don’t even know what else.)
The point is they are making it so that AI usage is the norm and encouraged. This makes me wary for a couple reasons:

if you don’t teach interns now, you won’t have associates and mid levels in a few years and the ones you do have will suck.
having AI use so encouraged makes me feel like every product produced will look and feel the same, be it from an associate, a partner, a big law firm or an individual practice lawyer -which is not necessarily bad, I don’t know..
juniors are producing better final outputs but becoming much worse at critical thinking and this will only get worse.

Thoughts?