The AI ​​runs on a smartphone and listens to the court hearings before instructing the defendant what to say through headphones (Photo: Unsplash)

A “robot lawyer” will defend a speeding ticket on his first day in court next month.

In February, an artificial intelligence (AI) developed by DoNotPay will advise a defendant in court, in what will likely be the first case defended by an AI.

The AI ​​runs on a smartphone and listens to the court hearings before telling the accused what to say through a headset, the New Scientist reports.

The location of the court and the suspect’s name are currently being kept secret.

In the event that the AI ​​loses the case, DoNoPay has agreed to take on any sanctions, according to company founder and CEO Joshua Browder.

Joshua Browder’s ultimate goal is for his app to completely replace lawyers to save defendants money (Photo: Today)

Billed as “the world’s first robot lawyer,” the company aims to help people “fight corporations, defeat bureaucracy, and sue anyone with the click of a button.”

Browder, a computer scientist trained at Stanford University, launched DoNotPay in 2015 as a chatbot that gives consumers legal advice on how to deal with late payments or fines.

His ultimate goal is for his app to completely replace lawyers to save defendants money.

“It’s all about language, and lawyers charge hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour for that,” he told New Scientist.

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The AI ​​runs on a smartphone and listens to the court hearings before instructing the accused what to say (Photo: Apple)

“There will still be a lot of good lawyers who could plead in the European Court of Human Rights, but many lawyers just charge way too much money for copying and pasting documents and I think they will definitely be replaced and they will have to be replaced,’

The AI ​​works as a legal assistant by asking the client about the legal issue and finding a loophole, which is then converted into a legal letter that can be sent to the appropriate institution or uploaded to a website.

In a promotional video, Browder explained that he got the idea when he started collecting parking tickets that he couldn’t afford. In doing so, he became the “expert” on loopholes that would allow him to avoid the fines.

As a software developer, Browder realized that the tedious and expensive process of issuing parking tickets could be automated, and he created a website to help people do the same.

“The goal of this company is to make $200 billion of approval free to consumers,” Browder said.

Last month, his company’s chatbot successfully negotiated with representatives of internet service provider Comcast to save $120 a year on an employee’s internet bill.