Extract from Sam Bock’s article “Preparing Legal Teams for an Agentic AI Future”
In the summer of 1996, my sisters and I played with our new Gameboy Pockets in the backseat of our my dad’s car on a long road trip. As we ran around with Mario and organized our Tetris blocks, we said to each other: “You know what would be awesome? If this screen was in color.”
Naturally, we were quite sure that this was an entirely unique idea. But alas, we were elementary students with no ability to make this totally-unheard-of invention happen.
Two years later, the Gameboy Color hit stores everywhere and we were certain it had been our idea first. What torture it was to have missed out on that huge moneymaking opportunity simply because we were too young to make it happen ourselves. I still think about it sometimes.
There are two kinds of legal professionals in the age of artificial intelligence: those who see what’s coming and, lacking the skill set to embrace it, keep on keeping on and hope for the best; and those who see what’s coming, acknowledge they don’t yet have the skill set to embrace it, and then go ahead and build those skills.
