[mechagodzilla]

The $500 going to the "AI Owner" instead of labor (i.e. the human lawyer) is the productivity gain though, right? And if that was such a productivity gain (i.e. the marginal cost was basically 0 to the AI owner, instead of, say, $499 in electricity and hardware), the usual outcome is that the cost for such a product/service basically gets driven to 0, and the benefit from productivity actually gets distributed to the clients that would have paid the lawyer (who suddenly get much cheaper legal services), rather than the owner of the 'AI lawyer.'

We seem pretty likely to be headed towards a future where AI-provided services have almost no value/pricing power, and just become super low margin businesses. Look at all of the nearly-identical 'frontier' LLMs right now, for a great example.

[larodi]

Indeed, fair chance AI only amplifies certain sector's wages, but the 100% automated work will not get any magic margin. Not more than say smart trading to have too many people focus there.