Personally I think the first &quot;white collar&quot; casualty of automation will be law.<p>90+% of law involves things like contract law and analysis of legal documents. All of that can be replaced by natural language processing, machine learning, etc. I envision &quot;contract compilers&quot; that produce contracts based on compact specs and other things in the near term (5-10 years out) followed by total replacement of most lower-level legal work with AI&#x2F;ML in the 15-30 year time frame.<p>In the end you will still have lawyers, but only to appear in courtrooms and do very high skill specialized legal analysis that involves a lot of conceptual thought. That will be a much smaller number of people than are employed in law today.<p>That&#x27;s a lot of well-paying jobs that are going to vaporize.