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Worries about impression of AI change from worry of job losses to considerations about skilled growth, report says
By Debra Cassens Weiss
July 2, 2025, 8:53 am CDT
Twenty-four % of authorized and different professionals surveyed by Thomson Reuters are frightened that overreliance on synthetic intelligence could have a damaging impact on skilled growth. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Twenty-four % of authorized and different professionals surveyed by Thomson Reuters are frightened that overreliance on synthetic intelligence could have a damaging impact on skilled growth.
The 2025 Way forward for Professionals report by Thomson Reuters, obtainable right here, stated the considerations 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 international locations, in response to a June 26 press launch. The professionals embody 1,363 authorized professionals in regulation corporations, in-house roles and authorities positions, Legislation.com stories.
Steven Assie, the overall supervisor of worldwide and huge corporations at Thomson Reuters, instructed Legislation.com that the considerations fluctuate by technology. Thirty-seven % of child boomer legal professionals cited lack of skilled talent growth as their No. 1 concern, in comparison with simply 14% of Technology Z legal professionals, Assie stated.
AI can now create a primary draft of a doc that will have fallen to a junior agency affiliate prior to now, Assie instructed Legislation.com.
“Some corporations are altering their coaching course of,” he stated. “Additionally they acknowledge that the abilities required by the trendy lawyer could also be totally different. Attorneys will nonetheless want to use technical judgment however shall be making use of this to reviewing AI outputs, somewhat than creating the primary draft from scratch.”
Eighty % of the survey respondents suppose that AI could have a excessive and even transformational impression 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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