After Jesse regales Katie with his famous Boston Bit (tm) and Katie catches Jesse up on every single thing that has happened on Twitter since he left, the two discuss the case of DoNotPay and Joshua Browder. Are we on the brink of robot lawyers effortlessly guiding underprivileged clients through difficult legal proceedings? Or is, like, literally none of that going to happen?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/03/23/tiktok-pasta-blender-reaction/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-ai-lawyer-donotpay-parking-tickets-london-new-york

https://abovethelaw.com/legal-innovation-center/2018/10/12/donotpay-is-the-latest-legal-tech-darling-but-some-are-saying-do-not-click/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23505873/donotpay-negotiate-bills-ai-chatbot

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/17/ai-creator-offers-1-million-hell-never-have-to-pay-to-anyone-willing-to-let-his-lawbot-argue-their-supreme-court-case/

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151435033/a-robot-was-scheduled-to-argue-in-court-then-came-the-jail-threats

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2023/01/22/a-i-for-the-defense/

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/01/26/bar-associations-threaten-pro-se-litigant-aided-by-ai-with-upl-suits

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-04/thousands-gather-to-attend-p-22-celebration-of-life-at-greek-theater

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