Talk to a university professor these days, and it isn’t long before they’re complaining that almost every student is now using ChatGPT to write essays. My response is always the same: maybe the problem is that essays have taken over the way universities judge a student’s aptitude. As with my professor friend, the problem isn’t that students are using ChatGPT to write essays; it’s that professors don’t want to spend even more time with students that alternative examinations would require. Likewise, is it a problem that ChatGPT can write legal copy better than most trainee lawyers? However, there is also the danger that we develop a prejudice that says the replacement of any job by ChatGPT is the problem, thereby automatically discounting the counterproposal that says this replacement is a manifestation of a much deeper problem.