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The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay

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 Stay Updated: * Find a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16z * Find a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z * Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/ * Follow our host: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

Joshua BrowderguestSteph Smithhost

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EPISODE INFO

Released: March 1, 2023
Duration: 49m
Channel: a16z
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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
Stay Updated:
Find a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16z
Find a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z
Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/
Follow our host: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio
Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

SPEAKERS

Joshua Browder
guest
Founder and CEO of DoNotPay, a consumer-rights legal automation company.
Steph Smith
host
a16z podcast host and interviewer covering technology and business.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of a16z, featuring Joshua Browder and Steph Smith, The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay explores doNotPay's Joshua Browder on Robot Lawyers Fighting Corporations and Legal Establishment DoNotPay began when Joshua Browder automated parking ticket appeals for friends and has grown over almost seven years into a horizontal consumer rights platform with over two million cases submitted and hundreds of thousands of active subscribers.

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