Business Insider: Robot Lawyer and Asylum Application

business insider: Now his Do Not Pay AI is tackling something even weightier asylum claims, according to Huffington Post Canada. The chatbot, which works through Facebook messenger, asks users questions to help them fill out an asylum application for the U.S., Canada or the U.K. There's this huge problem among immigration lawyers where the majority of their time is spent filling out forms rather than actually challenging the legal complexities of the case, Browder told Business Insider. Stanford University student Joshua Browder designed a robot lawyer in 2015 to help people appeal parking tickets, work out compensation for delayed or cancelled flights and even help people who are HIV positive navigate the legal system. Browder demonstrates how the robot lawyer works The 20-year-old, whose grandmother fled Austria during the Holocaust, understands the challenges refugees face. He programmed the AI to use simple language instead of complex legal jargon and is hoping to translate it into other languages, like Arabic and Spanish. I hope it will allow anyone to have a right to safety, regardless of the ability to afford a lawyer, he said in an interview with Mashable. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.