I'm guessing that this tech won't end up creating equality for poor people in the justice system.
Either it won't work as well as actual lawyers in which case it will become the only option poor people have (basically replacing public defenders), or it will work just as well as human representation (or even better), in which case 'AI lawyer' companies will charge just as much if not more for their services as the human lawyers do.
DoNotPay may be a humble start up now, but if the tech proves to be effective they (and other future AI companies) will eventually fleece their customers just as human lawyers do today. Not because they have to, or because it is in any way justified, but just because they can and doing it would make them richer.
Open Source and disconnected. AI is a wonderful tool that will turn into a nightmare when used to take advantage of people. I wouldn't want my "pocket lawyer" to send our private conversations anywhere but my personal offline space. The risk that someone with vested interests and enough funds could bribe their access to that data, if not directly to the AI, is simply too high. Unfortunately it seems that trustworthy AI is not going to happen anytime soon: there's simply too much money to make renting it as a service, hence online and closed.
Either it won't work as well as actual lawyers in which case it will become the only option poor people have (basically replacing public defenders), or it will work just as well as human representation (or even better), in which case 'AI lawyer' companies will charge just as much if not more for their services as the human lawyers do.
DoNotPay may be a humble start up now, but if the tech proves to be effective they (and other future AI companies) will eventually fleece their customers just as human lawyers do today. Not because they have to, or because it is in any way justified, but just because they can and doing it would make them richer.