Robot Lawyer Threatened with Legal Action
Image Credit: State Bar of California Plans to use an AI-powered legal tool named Robot Lawyer to defend a traffic ticket that has been dropped after state bars threatened legal action against its use. Joshua Browder, the CEO of DoNotPay and developer of Robot Lawyer, created the tool to help defendants fight cases without an attorney. The tool works by listening to court proceedings, analyzing discussions using AI language models (including ChatGPT and DaVinci), and then telling the defendant what to say. However, state bars have put a stop to its use. It's the job of the state bars to regulate attorneys to make sure that they fully understand the law. State bars argue that the use of the tool is against the law because the unauthorized practice of law…