World's First Robot Lawyer Now Expanding Services To Other Cities
The world's first robot lawyer, a chatbot known as DoNotPay, was created by a student at Stanford back in 2015--Joshua Browder. And since being launched years ago, it has already helped hundreds of thousands of people to get out of their parking tickets in the US and elsewhere.
It's been able to help turn over millions of dollars in parking fines and it's also helped people to try and resolve issues related to things like canceled or delayed flights, arguments over security deposits and rental repairs, and other financial claims.
The bot isn't able to argue any case in court though, and it's also not licensed to be practicing law in a courtroom and for this reason critics say that it's not really a lawyer. Though, it can and has helped to save its users quite a bit of money. It's also a free service for the users.
In two years, it's helped to turn over roughly 375,000 parking tickets.
The creator behind the project has said that he sees many uses for this technology in that there is plenty of information that could be automated, within the legal industry, using AI and his bot design he believes is the perfect tool to try and do that.
The bot is able to draft letters for the users that provide them with advice on their issues that they might be facing. And it can potentially provide them with a variety of options that are available to them.
This can be a tremendous benefit to many people who can't afford the hundreds or thousands of dollars it might end up costing them, to visit with a lawyer to try and get some basic information relating to their issue. The free chatbot is better than nothing, for many who might have no other option. And given its success thus far with overturning tickets for so many, we shouldn't be surprised that a growing number have turned to using this platform.
The program has already proven effective in various places and so now it will be expanded and Browder says that includes multiple cities across Canada.
The first four locations that they are going to experiment with are Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto.
Pics:
PSFK via psfk.com/2016/07/a-chatbot-lawyer-can-help-you-overturn-parking-tickets.html
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Sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/robot-lawyer-chatbot-2017-7
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-robot-lawyer-helps-160000-people-void-their-parking-tickets/
https://qz.com/1028627/motion-to-dismiss-claims-the-worlds-first-robot-lawyer-is-a-damn-lawyer-by-a-damn-lawyer/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/13/british-students-free-robot-lawyer-can-fight-speeding-tickets/
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15960080/chatbot-ai-legal-donotpay-us-uk
http://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/entrepreneur-launches-robot-lawyer-chatbot-in-four-canadian-cities
They need to bring this to the U.S. our courts are really overburdened. maybe it can take a little bit of stress off the system and save taxpayers some money.
it's already available in the US? :)
I must have smoked too much I totally missed that lol. Thought it was just in Canada.
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Thanks for this interesting post.
I perceive this type of interaction will grow in many fields. In fact, virtual counseling is also growing as a crucial element of bot developers.
Again, thanks for this post!
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My favorite part, "The bot is able to draft letters for the users..."🐓
Interesting article.
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This is a really awesome free service and there are a lot of minor legal issues that can be handled in that way. I'm sure the right community of developers could marry this idea to the blockchain as well and run with it, providing access to useful automated legal help for many people for free.
Now that is too cool. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I recently paid a $39 parking ticket in Ottawa. Next time I am hunting this thing down. LOL
let me know if it helps you win when you do! lol:)
lawyers are one profession that i think most people will be happy to actually see automated.
great post.