A court hearing in February is set to make history when the defendant is advised by artificial intelligence.
The technology comes from the company DoNotPay, which was founded in 2015 by a then Stanford University freshman and was originally developed to address parking tickets.
The world’s first Lawyer Robot runs on the defendant’s smartphone and listens to comments to guide his client on what to say in arguments.
The location of the courthouse, the charges and the name of the defendant were not disclosed, according to New Scientist.
The defendant will use a smartphone app powered by the robot lawyer to advise him on what to say during the February court hearing
Joshua Browder originally developed the robot to contest parking tickets in the UK when he first rolled out the technology, but has since expanded it to the US.
However, this technology was developed in a chat format where the bot would proceed with questions to learn the details of your case such as: B. ‘Did you or someone you know drive?’ or ‘Was it difficult to understand the parking signs?’
After analyzing your answers, the robot will decide if you qualify for an appeal. If so, he prepares an appeal letter that can be taken to court.
A similar format is used in the February trial, but “listening in” to conversations between the prosecutor and the defendant to advise his client on what to say next.
However, the AI was trained to be factual in order to “minimize legal liability,” Browder told New Scientist.
He also customized the audio tool to not immediately respond to statements, instead letting the attackers end their discussion, analyze comments, and then present a solution
“It’s all about language, and lawyers charge hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour for that,” said Browder, who believes this technology will one day replace lawyers.
“There will still be a lot of good lawyers out there, maybe arguing before the European Court of Human Rights, but a lot of lawyers are just charging way too much money for copying and pasting documents, and I think they will definitely be replaced, and they should be replaced.’
DoNotPay’s website shows that its technology can be used for things other than a robot: fighting corporations; beat bureaucracy; find hidden money; and sue everyone.
The robot has learned the laws about canceled and delayed flights and payment protection insurance.
DoNotPay also offers consumer and workplace legal advice to people in the US and UK, including workplace harassment or misleading claims in ads.
And it will connect users to external help in more serious cases, such as: B. free legal representation.
China was the first country to use artificial intelligence in the courtroom.
It was revealed last July that the nation was using the technology to “improve” its court system by recommending laws, drafting documents and reporting “perceived human errors” in judgments.
Judges must now consult the AI in every legal case, Beijing’s Supreme Court said in an update to the system released this week, and if they violate its recommendation, they must provide a written explanation of why.
Developed in 2015, the DoNotPay robot was designed in a chat format where the bot proceeds with questions to learn the details of cases involving parking tickets
The AI has also been linked to police databases and China’s Orwellian social credit system, giving it the power to punish people by automatically listing a thief’s property for sale online.
China has been developing an “intelligent court system” since at least 2016, when Chief Justice Qiang Zhou called for technology to improve the “fairness, efficiency and credibility” of the judicial system.
That has meant the introduction of receptionist robots in courthouses to offer online legal aid, automatic speech recognition recording devices in courtrooms that eliminate the need for transcription, and “virtual courtrooms” where cases can be heard online.
China has even introduced a highly specialized “Internet Court” that deals exclusively with cases related to the virtual world – such as online loans, domain name disputes and copyright issues.
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