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:   / jbrowder1  

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