Last year , Stanford University student Joshua Browder launched a free chatbot calledDoNotPay , which provides legal advice to help people in New York and London get out of parking tickets . In just a few unforesightful month , his automaton lawyer successfully contested160,000 ticketswith a 64 pct success rate . Now , Ars Technicareports , the 19 - year - previous coder and his robotic pal are harness a newfangled issue : homelessness .
Browder ’s update DoNotPay chatbot will help oneself people in the UK who are facing eviction . Not only will the bot provide liberal effectual advice , it will also enlist physical body letters to help oneself mass practice for pinch living accommodations . In social club to create the bot , Browder team up up with UK homelessness charity , Centrepoint , whose lawyers helped him finesse the advice his robot lawyer provides . The easy - to - use bot take users questions that could be pertinent to an soul ’s display case , then generates recommendations based on their specific situation .
" What is most exciting for me is not only that it is completely barren ( currently the only alternative is to pay a lawyer 100 of dollars ) , but also that it will save the missive to maximise the applier ’s chances , " Browder told Ars Technica . " For example , it will rearrange the letter to concenter on how a genial illness means that an diligence should be a antecedence . "
While homelessness is a more complex trouble than getting out of a parking slate , Browder hopes his robot attorney will at least bring home the bacon a start point for masses confront eviction . He toldThe Washington Postthat he was inspire to begin work on the bot ’s housing aid have after receiving multiple petition for help from DoNotPay ’s users .
“ I start up to pick up a magnanimous number of subject matter about evictions and repossession , and acknowledge that they were at the highest levels ever recorded , ” he explains . “ I felt bad that I did n’t have the knowledge to personally aid people , peculiarly since they were being made dispossessed . ”
[ h / tArs Technica ]
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