Joshua Browder is the founder and CEO of DoNotPay. He describes his vision for automated legal technology in the intro to the discussion.
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State bar association threatened DoNotPay with prosecution over AI lawyer
“Another state bar association actually threatened us. And they said that if you do it, it's against the rules and we'll prosecute you for unauthorized practice of law.”
Opinion
Lawyers oppose AI because automation threatens their copy-paste work
“Lawyers really don't want this technology to move forward that much because they realize that a lot of their job is copying and pasting documents. Not all lawyers are like that, but some of them are. And if AI can just do that and replace them, it puts a lot o…”
Disclosure
DoNotPay routes requests through user IPs to bypass corporate anti-bot blocks
“And the way we got around that is we have the Do Not Pay app, and it actually uses the IP of the user, so it's like a, it's almost like lots of distributed nodes fighting these companies, and they haven't been able to stop that.”
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AI legal assistants will dismantle predatory business models with automated lawsuits
“I think people will have assistance in courtrooms. I think that consumer rights, they'll have AI general counsels sitting on their shoulder, making sure that these companies aren't ripping them off, and it will just create a more efficient world where companie…”
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DoNotPay aims to eliminate the need for everyday lawyers
“My goal is to make it so the average person doesn't need to see a lawyer. If you're being accused of burning down someone's house, you should probably still see a lawyer, but normal people don't deal with that. They just deal with Comcast, United, Their hospit…”
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Congressional staffers will use ChatGPT to draft laws within a year
“I think in the next year, it's already secretly writing laws. A lot of laws originate from an overworked staffer in Congress, and I'm sure it's two a.m. They need to finish it, and they're probably typing in ChatGPT asking, asking it to help them a bit, and so…”