Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Licensing

February 22nd, 2012

Robots are cute until they take your job. I choose to write about technology replacing the job of lawyers primarily because it is the field I am most acquainted with, but more precisely, I expect that to the field with the most resistance. Lawyers, the very people who write occupational licensing regimes are on all sides of the fence–in the profession, as legislative aides in the legislator. This will be a big public choice hurdle.