Joshua Browder

The startup behind the “world’s first robot lawyer,” DoNotPay, is gearing up for its first big court battle. And this time it probably can’t just back out of the case, as DoNotPay is the defendant. The company is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it misled customers and misrepresented its product. In the complaint (embedded below), filed March 3 in a San Francisco court and published Thursday, the plaintiff’s legal team claim that DoNotPay’s description of itself as the “world’s first robot lawyer” is…

If you’ve been fantasizing about the day when artificial intelligence could get you out of paying traffic tickets, you’ll just have to keep dreaming. DoNotPay has backed out of its plans to use an AI-powered “robot lawyer” to council a defendant through a courtroom hearing in real time. The reason why? Well, apparently the law got in the way of the robot’s lawyering. The company’s founder and CEO, Joshua Browder, first announced the news in a Wednesday tweet. “After receiving threats from State Bar prosecutors, it seems…

Would you trust ChatGPT to represent you in front of the U.S. Supreme Court?Photo: T. Schneider (Shutterstock)Can an artificial intelligence go head-to-head with human lawyers in the highest court in the land? A legal services company says it’s willing to pay $1 million to fuck around and find out. On Sunday, DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder made a wild proposition to any lawyer slated to argue an upcoming case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Let DoNotPay’s AI lawyer, which is built on OpenAI’s viral GPT-3 API, argue the…

DoNotPay bills itself as “the world’s first robot lawyer.” Now, for the first time, that claim will be reportedly put to the test in an actual courtroom.Screenshot: DoNotPay / GizmodoAn AI-based legal advisor is set to play the role of a lawyer in an actual court case for the first time. Via an earpiece, the artificial intelligence will coach a courtroom defendant on what to say to get out of the associated fines and consequences of a speeding charge, AI-company DoNotPay has claimed in a report initially from New…

If odd digital interpretations of classic movie posters and strangely sexual selfie photo collages on Instagram still haven’t convinced you of generative artificial intelligence’s merits, maybe saving a few bucks will. That’s part of the idea behind a new ChatGPT chatbot from the company DoNotPay, which it says can effectively negotiate better prices on bills for its users. DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder posted a video on his Twitter account of the bot hard at work trying to negotiate a better internet deal for a DoNotPay…