Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer...
by OkayPhysicist on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:38PM
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Actually, by telling a client what specific arguments to make in court, they were giving big-L Legal Advice, and thus literally practicing law.
Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer...
by danShumway on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:18PM
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> Law is different because the bar has a legally enforced monopoly on doing legal work.
I don't see how this would decrease DoNotPay's liability.
Regardless of how you feel about the bar, I don't think that changes anything about who they would sanction or why. Having a legal monopoly means they're even less likely to go along with a "the AI did it, not me" explanation than a normal market would be.
I mean, no matter what, they're not sanctioning the AI. They don't recognize the AI as a person, they recognize it as a tool that a person/organization is using to perform an action.
Law is different because the bar has a legally enforced monopoly on doing legal work.
DoNotPay was being threatened. But they weren't practicing law - they were just providing legal tools.
My point is that were in uncharted legal territory. Perhaps ask the AI what it thinks ;)