Future for Consultants + Lawyers

Do you all think the rise of AI enabled modeling will open the door for more consultants and even potentially lawyers to break into the investing world? Particularly thinking of consultants with deep sector expertise and finance/restructuring lawyers with deep process/covenant understanding. 

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Both are actively being disrupted by AI. If anything my question would be how much lower would the bar fall for finance guys with neither of these backgrounds, to break into investment positions that typically require either of these backgrounds. Not sure where someone with deep consulting background would fit anyway, especially strategy guys who only know how to design strategies and do none of the operational work that arises from implementing and refining said strategies. For lawyers, obviously these guys would often be found in structuring and distressed, so my question is not whether they could enter other areas of public markets but rather if their services would be required just as much as before. Because other areas of public markets require understanding of things like positioning, sentiment, irrationality etc. which I do not think AI can chip away at easily and which these guys often don't excel at. 

 

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