Should AI belong in the courtroom? Joshua Browder ventured to run an experiment where a robot lawyer would defend a court case. Looking to up the ante, he even offered $1m for a Supreme Court hearing! His experiment was met with a threat of 6 months jail time. Listen in for the full story.
Topics Covered:
00:00 – Introduction
01:46 – DoNotPay’s origin
03:03 – Surprising laws
05:47 – General counsel for consumers
07:04 – The role of AI and technology
09:27 – Ensuring quality counsel
13:16 – Prioritizing features
14:49 – Corporate pushback
17:19 – Reshaping the legal system
20:40 – Entering the physical courtroom
25:16 – Cross border possibilities
26:36 – Looping humans into modeling
29:26 – Deflationary impacts
30:31 – Recent pushback
33:46 – Is AI already writing law?
35:47 – Why is law so complex?
38:12 – Entering the Supreme Court
39:17 – Lawyer support
40:26 – Looking forward
43:56 – Building horizontal vs vertical
46:14 – Does this law exist?
Resources:
* DoNotPay: https://donotpay.com/
* Find Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jbrowder1
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