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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by drakythe on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:27AM (#34532844)
As noted by several lawyers when some of the details of this experiment were revealed: The AI already committed a cardinal sin of traffic court in that it subpoenaed the ticketing officer.

Rule 1 of traffic court: If the state's witness (the ticketing officer) doesn't show, defendant gets off. You do not subpoena that witness, thereby ensuring they show up.

If the AI or its handlers cannot be trusted to pregame the court appearance even remotely well then no way in hell should it be trusted with the actual trial.

You want to run this experiment? Great, lets setup a mock court with a real judge and observing lawyers and run through it. But don't waste a real court's time or some poor bastard's money by trying it in the real world first.

A reminder that "Move fast and break things" should never apply where user's life or liberty is at stake.

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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by gfodor on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:59AM (#34533408)
agree to your last point, but a traffic ticket beta test does not fail that test
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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by drakythe on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:59AM (#34534475)
While I agree in absolute terms, in legal terms it is problematic because it sets precedent, which is what the law often runs off of. Better to not breach that line until we're sure it can perform in all circumstances, or rules have been established which clearly delineate where AI assistance/lawyering is allowed and where it isn't.
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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:20AM (#34533750)
> noted by several lawyers when some of the details of this experiment were revealed: The AI already committed a cardinal sin of traffic court in that it subpoenaed the ticketing officer

Would you have a source?

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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by drakythe on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:57AM (#34534429)
https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/161754192110223360...

Mike Dunford is a practicing attorney. Embedded tweet is of a non-lawyer who screenshotted Joshua Browser DoNotPay CEO) saying the subpoena had been sent. He has since deleted those tweets as DNP backs away from this plan.

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