DoNotPay — the populace ’s chancellor AI attorney — is now coming to the aid of refugees seeking sanctuary in the U.S. , Canada , and the United Kingdom . All they have to do is hit upa Facebook Messenger conversationwith DoNotPay by simply typing " jump . " From there , the free programme will avail guide users through the process of charge for asylum . On the program ’s Facebook Sir Frederick Handley Page , it boasts , " Our service admit anyone to mechanically lay claim asylum in the U.S , U.K and Canada for free ( instantly ) . "
Joshua Browder , the Lord of DoNotPay , has been make for on this new refugee asylum service for calendar month . The political platform originally get down as a way for people to get free legal advice forgetting out of parking ticket . DoNotPay was successful to the tune of about 160,000 overturned tickets in 21 months — with a 64 percent achiever rate . It ’s also helped with caparison issues , transportation conflict , and defrayment protective covering insurance . Still , the messy legal waters surrounding refugee will be its toughest task yet .
Through Facebook Messenger , DoNotPay will help people file and submit asylum applications in the U.S. and Canada , and for the UK , it helps people apply for asylum financial support . Once a conversation is initiated , the chatbot will ask users a series of questions for assist them fill the forms out properly . The entropy gathered is then used to autofill the forms to head off mistakes . For this all to work , the program had to understand the intricacies of each rural area ’s ever - changing laws . Browder even let in Canada as an alternative follow the 2016 United States presidential election . All of these complexities meant a plenty of all right - tuning .
“ I ’ve been trying to establish this for about six month — I ab initio wanted to do it in the summer,“Browder toldThe Guardian . " I kept showing it to lawyer throughout the appendage and I ’d go back and pick off it . That accept calendar month and months of piece of work , but we desire to verify it was good . ”
For a little more peacefulness of mind regarding DoNotPay ’s use of Facebook Messenger , everyone ’s entropy is deleted on the program ’s remnant within 10 minutes after an app is filed . The next step for Browder is to move the political program to other services , include WhatsApp , and to extend it in multiple speech communication . presently , he ’s working on an Arabic translation for it .
[ h / tThe Guardian ]
