Artificial intelligence will act as a lawyer in a trial for the first time

AI legal assistant DoNotPay helped people challenge parking tickets. Now, for the first time, this technology will be tested in a real courtroom. Gizmodo.

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DoNotPay bills itself as "the world's first robot lawyer".

An AI-powered legal advisor will play the role of a lawyer in a real court case for the first time. Through the earpiece, artificial intelligence will teach the defendant in the courtroom what to say to avoid the associated fines and consequences of a speeding charge, DoNotPay said.

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An in-person hearing in the speeding case is scheduled for February in a U.S. courtroom, according to DoNotPay founder and CEO Joshua Browder. However, Browder and company did not provide any further details of the case to protect defendant's privacy.

DoNotPay is also reluctant to disclose the details of the case because what they are doing is likely to violate laws and courtroom protocol. In many countries and jurisdictions around the world, phones and devices connected to the Internet are banned in courts. To get around restrictions on phone use, Browder explained that the company is relying on accessibility standards hearings in this particular court that offer a loophole to allow Apple AirPods to be used. Asked if the court would be aware of AI assistance during the hearing, Browder replied, "Definitely not."

The CEO said the company is also working with another defendant in U.S. speeding tickets in a case that will go to trial in Zoom. In this case, DoNotPay is juxtaposing the use of a teleprompter with a synthetic voice, a strategy Browder called "grossly illegal." But he's not too concerned about the legal implications because "it's a traffic ticket after all." Browder does not expect courts to harshly convict defendants for speeding due to AI training, and there is no clear provision in the law to ban AI-assisted legal aid. In addition, “this is an experiment, and we like to take risks,” he added.

However, DoNotPay plans to take responsibility for any penalties arising from both cases, and Browder said the company will compensate the two defendants for their participation in the "experiment." He also explained that the company has carefully trained its AI not to lie or deviate from the facts presented, which he hopes will remove the possibility of being charged with perjury in the courtroom.

DoNotPay was launched in 2015 as a basic chatbot designed to help users navigate through bureaucratic and legal turmoil - mostly using conversation templates. And even in its earliest incarnations, the bot was a success. In less than two years, DoNotPay has successfully challenged 160 parking tickets in New York and London. And the company claims to have resolved a total of 000 million cases since its founding. Then, in 2, with the release of ChatGPT, the company shifted its focus to AI and expanded its capabilities.

More recently, DoNotPay has gained attention for its corporate negotiation tactics. In a video posted to his Twitter account, Browder showed how he was using a ChatGPT-powered bot to shave $10 off his monthly internet bill. The founder also revealed that he recently used artificial intelligence and a synthesized voice to offset $16 in bank fees. And these are the types of use cases where Browder believes DoNotPay will be the most applicable to the public in the near future. Though he said his goal is for AI to eventually completely supplant some lawyers.

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The company already offers tools on its site that can create written messages or scripts for people who want to avoid or minimize fines, healthcare costs, subscriptions, or other common bureaucratic hurdles of modern life. For now, at least, the courtroom experiment is just “a proof of concept to try and encourage the courts to use technology and allow people to access justice,” he said.

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“We help consumers fight corporations and defeat bureaucracy by saving them from parking tickets and refunds from big companies like airlines…Our goal at DoNotPay is to make the law free,” Browder says in a promotional video companies. But we will have to wait until the end of February to see if this lofty vision will be successfully implemented in the courtroom. Browder said the company will reveal details of both Zoom and personal cases once they are completed.

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