A technological investor does not buy the company spin on AI stimulating workers.
“Large companies speak, as” does not replace people, it increases them “, said Victor Lazarte, general partner of Benchmark – the venture capital company that has supported big names like Uber, Asana, Snap and WeWork.
“These are bullshit. He fully replaces people,” he added.
Lazarte said on an episode of the twenty -minute podcast VC published on Monday that two professions should be particularly nervous about AI: lawyers and recruiters.
He said that students at the Faculty of Law should think about what they could do in three years that AI could not.
“There will not be many things,” he said.
Fresh partners are often grunts of law, and the legal technology industry buzzes on how AI could reduce occupied work.
Lazarte also said that AI models will soon be better than people to interview candidates – and much more effective than the disorderly manual hiring processes.
Lawyers and recruiters feel the pressure
Legal and recruitment areas are already reshaped by AI.
In March, a job lawyer told Melia Russell to Business Insider at a conference on legal technology: “Lawyers are dinosaurs.”
“Lawyers must wake up,” said Todd Itami, lawyer for the large Legal Defense Covington & Burling. Learning to use artificial intelligence was “imperative” for their success, he added.
In terms of recruitment, startups are trying to automate the hiring process.
In March, BI said that Optimhire – A startup using AI to replace job recruiters – had lifted $ 5 million. The company says that its AI agent, the Recruiter Optimai, can obtain candidates, make screening calls and plan interviews for job managers, reduce the time and cost of filling open roles.
BI reported in 2023 that HR and recruitment teams are increasingly using AI tools at several stages in the job process, from the curriculum vitae to short -term candidates. Technological leaders have predicted that the tools would make the hiring process faster for HR workers and could even prove to be valuable for job seekers.
Smaller teams, greater benefits?
While AI could come for jobs, Lazarte said it was also going to overcome businesses.
With the reduced and soap -of -productivity costs, companies will become more precious – and much smaller.
“You will make sure that these billions of dollars companies are carried out by very small teams,” he said. “People who have actions will become richer, the founders will become much richer.”
But he warned that the rise in ultra-resident companies and fueled by AI could be a double-edged sword.
It could also be a “very destabilizing force,” said Lazarte, adding that these companies fed by AI could unlock a massive value for society but also to deepen inequalities.
And Lazarte does not think that the influence of AI will stop at the office.
“Very soon, we will have an application that simply tells us what to do all day-and we will love it,” he said. “We will obey machines.”