A "Lawyer Bot" Has Helped 160,000 People Void Their Parking Tickets

With the rising anxiety about robots taking over human jobs, now even lawyers may have a reason to be on the edge of their seats. A 19-year-old Stanford University student, Joshua Browder, impressively taught himself how to code and ended up creating what he claims is the "world's first robot lawyer," according to The Guardian. Over the past 21 months, the artificial intelligence (AI) lawyer chatbot has successfully helped void 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York. The bot has done it all for free. Remarkably, DoNotPay chatbot has taken on a quarter of a million parking ticket cases, and the AI lawyer has won 64 percent of them. To quantify the impact, the chatbot has saved about 4 million in fines that no longer have to be paid.