The world’s first robot lawyer is due to represent a human in an upcoming court case. The CEO of DoNotPay, a legal services chatbot founded by Joshua Browder in 2015, believes its AI attorney should replace all human lawyers moving forward and promises legal victory if it happens.
- Browder’s robot lawyer will defend a client in February 2023 over a speeding ticket. He believes the artificial intelligence has what it takes to win cases. The AI will run via a smartphone, with the defendant listening to its advice via headphones.
- So, how does it actually work? According to The New Scientist, the robot lawyer will listen to all of the court proceedings, process and analyze the information, then tell the defendant what to do moving forward. Sounds pretty straightforward, but it’s hard to know how effective it will be.
- DoNotPay is so confident the AI will win, it’s putting its money where its mouth is. Browder told the defendant that if they don’t win their court case, the company will cover any and all legal fees as well as pay the speeding fines.
- Browder believes his company will revolutionize the legal world. “DoNotPay utilizes artificial intelligence to help consumers fight against large corporations and solve their problems like beating parking tickets, appealing bank fees, and suing robocallers,” the company’s manifesto reads on its website. “DoNotPay’s goal is to level the playing field and make legal information and self-help accessible to everyone.”
- Lawyers are expensive but Browder doesn’t think they should have to be. While human lawyers still come in handy in very complex cases, the money they charge for doing simple administrative tasks is outrageous and needs to be curbed. “There’ll still be a lot of good lawyers out there who may be arguing in the European Court of Human Rights, but a lot of lawyers are just charging way too much money to copy and paste documents and I think they will definitely be replaced, and they should be replaced,” Browder told The New Scientist.
Pretty cool!
Here it is! The first ever Comcast bill negotiated 100% with A.I and LLMs.
Our @DoNotPay ChatGPT bot talks to Comcast Chat to save one of our engineers $120 a year on their Internet bill.
Will be publicly available soon and work on online forms, chat and email. pic.twitter.com/eehdQ5OXrl
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) December 12, 2022
