Transformation of Work While AI certainly has the potential to disrupt the way we cur- rently handle low-level legal work, it also has the potential to improve the happiness of an often-unhappy profession. I’m not sure any human attorneys ever enjoy reading thousands of nearly identical contracts, however well they are paid! Management consulting The tech industry is notoriously skeptical of management con- sulting, but having worked with many smart, high-integrity professionals at firms like McKinsey, I believe management consultants can play an important role in business (albeit rarely at startups with fewer than one hundred employees.) Management consultants are often called upon to draw con- clusions from large amounts of data, to benchmark and share best practices, and to create plans for starting and growing new business units. A lot of these tasks feel like they might be well- suited to AI. Let’s test that intuition. Reid: What are some of the ways that AI could be used to perform the important functions of management consulting? GPT-4: - AI could be used to help identify opportunities for improvement and cost savings in businesses by analyz- ing data sets and recommending strategies and tactics. - AI could be used to help with forecasting and predic- tive analysis to better anticipate market trends, cus- tomer behavior, and other economic conditions. - AI could be used to generate insights from customer feedback and employee surveys, allowing for more tar- geted and effective management consulting activities. 127