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.
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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..."🐓
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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:)
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.
lawyers are one profession that i think most people will be happy to actually see automated.
great post.
This makes you beg the question, how long are we overrun by our own technology? This tool is really nice for helping parking tickets, but if people were to build and improve upon this invention we could see technology fighting cases of law in the court room soon.
We are using all of this to ease human efforts but we should be careful that we do not completely render ourselves useless and let technology take over us.
Labour and hard work makes us human beings, we should continue to be that.
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Canada is weird you don't have to be a lawyer to give legal advice they have a separate category called a para-legal and it's a big business. Most of the places that fight traffic tickets or help immigrants are para legals. Now it's probably going to be all robots since they work for free
I have been saying we NEED this for a while. We need to make lawyers obsolete. They are only in it for $ and cannot be trusted. They are in collusion with the rest of the " justice" system. Gatekeepers. I want a bot that can, in real time, know ALL applicable laws in a given situation. Including all applicable precedent setting cases. The criminals in charge of our system don't know the law. Cops , judges, and lawyers abuse people daily and our lack of knowledge of the law is all that allows this. There are so many laws how can a mere human, or even a dozen of them, know them all. This is clearly a job for a computer. This could be a game changer.
I really appreciate the good lawyers that are out there, especially the ones at the Institute for Justice who have helped many people fight back against the corrupt civil asset forfeiture policy, licensing schemes, and other issues. If you ever find yourself a target of the state some day, you'll be wishing you had good legal representation 👍
My life was destroyed by the "state". There was no one to fight for me. I had to leave everything behind. If these "good" lawyers are out there they are falling way short. They should put their time into making this bot.
This is amazing! I've been hearing about AI and the reaches of its capability a lot lately. They say AI will replace all our jobs, except perhaps the most creative industries, and maybe even that.
They say some of the easiest jobs to replace are some of our highest paying jobs today: doctors, accountants, and as you imply with your write up here, Lawyers.
These jobs are complicated, but really the complication breaks down into many small easy steps, which computers are MUCH better at then we are.
General AI is coming, and that means computers that can learn to do anything, cook, clean, medical services, teach, etc, etc, etc.
People say robots are coming for all our jobs. Its potentially a very serious problem for our economy. Self-driving cars for instance can immediately remove 30% of all jobs in the USA, because 30% of all jobs in the US involve delivery, which requires people... for now.
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Hello, @doitvoluntarily first time i informed from you World's First Robot Lawyer is working. yes, it's a great news but can't understand how robots provide service.I think it only provide rules of law from it's vast database. am i right or not?
Now that is a innovation and to turn over parking tickets! i bet they will find other uses for the robot lawyer. it has got to be more honest than human lawyers as it does not yet know the feeling of greed. LOL
Love this, will try it in the UK. Need some advice on how to stop all this extortion that is been conducted on the UK :)
Can't find the UK version it appears it been shut down !@