In a world first an AI lawyer will defend a human in a real court room
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is good at some things, and cheap, so what happens when AI goes to bat in your corner in a court room? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
The robo-lawyer that overturned 160,000 parking tickets is helping refugees claim asylum
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Claiming asylum is difficult at the best of times, and that’s if you’re not in fear of your life and can understand the language, now DoNotPay’s latest bot makes the process less tortuous. The creator of a chatbot that helped to over turn more...
DoNotPay’s famous robo-lawyer helps people avoid homelessness
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The power of Bots is only just starting to be realised and it’s looking increasingly likely that the first industry they’ll disrupt is the legal profession. The idea started with a desperate email from a woman in a UK hospital. She was scared of being discharged at...
Robo-Lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An artificial intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful. Dubbed as “the world’s first robot lawyer”, a title which actually belongs to an American AI called “Ross”, by...