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The next time you accidentally drive your Jaguar E-Pace through your neighbour’s fence and into his swimming pool, you may need to get yourself a lawyer.

Luckily, there’s now an app for that.

Founded by Joshua Browder, DoNotPay has finally been given the approval to let their new Artificial Intelligent (AI) lawyer legally defend a client in court.

Although cellphones are usually not allowed in court, Browder managed to get approval for them to be recognised as a ‘hearing aid’.

In a sense, it is, as the device will be allowed to give real-time instructions on what, and what not to say.

Using a relatively minor speeding ticket case as a test, the mobile app will use headphones to prompt the defendant, who has agreed to only repeat what the AI tells him. Or as their website proudly states:

“Fight corporations, beat bureaucracy, and sue anyone at the press of a button.”

‘Home of the world’s first robot lawyer’, the startup was launched in 2015 and claims to have assisted in three million cases, with its most recent claim being assisting a bank customer to dismiss a $16 fee, using only the app.

According to iflscience, another AI had previously given evidence in the House of Lords, but this will be the first time that artificial intelligence has been given sole responsibility for a client’s defence in a court.

If the developers got it right, you might just have Telly Savalas purring in your ear all the way to the nearest not-guilty bar the next time you attempt to drift into your driveway. Hell yeah!

Unless you are the neighbour. Luckily there is an app for that too.

[source:skynews&IFLS]