The Jevons Paradox says efficiency creates more demand, not less. Make legal work cheaper, more people use lawyers, you need more lawyers. Then I read his caveat: “AI is moving faster than all these previous technologies, and when you strain a system more than it’s usually strained, you get weird behaviours and big disruption.”
Translation: Jevons needs time. Markets need time to find new demand, employers need time to expand instead of contract.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/dario-amodei-jevons-paradox-will-ai-wipe-out-white-collar-jobs/