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73 U. Miami L. Rev. 443 (2018-2019)
Professions and Expertise: How Machine Learning and Blockchain Are Redesigning the Landscape of Professional Knowledge and Organization

handle is hein.journals/umialr73 and id is 465 raw text is: ARTICLES Professions and Expertise: How Machine Learning and Blockchain Are Redesigning the Landscape of Professional Knowledge and Organization JOHN FLOOD & LACHLAN ROBB* Machine learning has entered the world of the profes- sions with differential impacts. Automation will have huge impacts on the nature of work and society. Engineering, ar- chitecture, and medicine are early and enthusiastic adopters of automation. Other professions, especially law, are late and, in some cases, reluctant adopters.' This Article exam- ines the effects of artificial intelligence (AI') and Block- chain on professions and their knowledge bases. We start by examining the nature of expertise in general and the function * John Flood, Professor of Law and Society, Griffith University, Brisbane; Honorary Professor of Law, University College London; Research Fellow, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Lachlan Robb, Researcher and Sessional Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Brisbane. We thank the editors of the University of Miami Law Review and their February 2018 Symposium entitled Hack to the Future: How Technology Is Disrupting the Legal Profession. We appreciate the support of the Law Futures Centre at Griffith University for research assistance. We are grateful to Laurel Terry, Penn State University, for her most acute and helpful comments. And Peter Lederer as usual gave us valuable insights. Contact j. flood@griffith.edu.au. 1 Within professions and occupations there are differential rates of adoption and diffusion of technology. According to William Henderson, the early adopters in law are small in number, one sixth, but ambitious, and can set the future road forward for the remainder. William D. Henderson, Innovation Diffusion in the Legal Industry, 122 DICK. L. REV. 395, 402-03 (2018). Henderson adopts the Rogers Diffusion Curve, which he argues applies as much to lawyers as it does to farmers. See id at 403, 448-49. 443

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