My lawyer, the robot - POLITICO

Call it the Cyber-ano de Bergerac Defense. The eerie new capabilities of artificial intelligence are about to show up inside a courtroom -- in the form of an AI chatbot lawyer that will soon argue a case in traffic court. That's according to Joshua Browder, the founder of a consumer-empowerment startup who conceived of the scheme. Sometime next month, Browder is planning to send a real defendant into a real court armed with a recording device and a set of earbuds. Browder's company will feed audio of the proceedings into an AI that will in turn spit out legal arguments; the defendant, he says, has agreed to repeat verbatim the outputs of the chatbot to an unwitting judge.