Artificial Intelligence Program Will Become a Defense Team’s Legal Assistant in a Legal First
An artificial intelligence program will act as a legal assistant helping a live defendant during a court proceeding — a first for both AI and the law. This coming February, an AI from DoNotPay will work with a defendant, guiding them on what to say so they can beat a speeding charge. Though not as fantastical as a homicide case, or one dealing with conspiracy, this is a first for both the legal and artificial intelligence worlds. This story comes to us from NewScientist, In the report, it states that the AI will run on the defendant’s smartphone. Listening to all of the speech in the courtroom, the AI will instruct the defendant on what to say through an earpiece.
Unfortunately for those of us who’d love to see this in real-time, both the court and the name of the defendant are being kept secret. The AI was developed by DoNotPay. the company describes itself as “The World’s First Robot Lawyer.” Founded by Joshua Browder, the program is described as a chatbot AI program. According to the DoNotPay website, the program was originally created to fight speeding tickets. As the company states, the purpose of DoNotPay is to, “Fight corporations, beat bureaucracy, and sue anyone at the press of a button.”
But now, it is expanding to provide other services which vary depending on the complexity. Another feature of the program is providing advice to assist people to avoid paying a parking ticket. The program can also help with filtering spam by creating fake phone and credit card numbers. Currently, the app runs as a subscription. The charge is only $36 yearly. Though this is a very interesting experiment, the lawyers don’t need to run for the hills. Well, at least not yet. That’s because an artificially intelligent program that can help you manage your legal cases is still in the future. Though as with any other dataset, the more an AI program learns, the better at the job it will become.
This could also open more doors for AI to empower other research and logic-intensive professions that can benefit from tools that can provide arcuate information in a minimal amount of time. So it’s unlikely, even in decades’ time, that an AI program, or programs, will replace your lawyer.
Originally posted on OpenDataScience.com
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