{"id":29017,"date":"2016-08-16T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/parking-ticket-bot-will-now-help-homeless-people-get-benefits"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:08","slug":"parking-ticket-bot-will-now-help-homeless-people-get-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/parking-ticket-bot-will-now-help-homeless-people-get-benefits","title":{"rendered":"Parking-ticket bot will now help homeless people get benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parking-ticket-bot-will-now-help-homeless-people-get-benefits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford computer science student Joshua Browder, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/06\/28\/chatbot-lawyer-overturns-1600.html\">DoNotPay<\/a> bot helps you fight parking tickets in London and New York (it\u2019s estimated to have overturned $4M in tickets to date) has a new bot in the offing: a chatbot that helps newly homeless people in the UK create and optimise their applications for benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Report this ad.<\/p>\n<p>In austerity-wracked Britain, where the Tories have made things easier than they\u2019ve ever been for landlords and harder than they\u2019ve ever been for workers, repossessions and evictions are at an all-time high. So Browder \u2014 who was born in the UK \u2014 decided to add a homelessness navigation aid to his bot, which had already been expanded to handle fight-delay reimbursement applications. He\u2019s also researching adding New York City homelessness form-completing to the bot\u2019s repertoire.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/08\/15\/parking-ticket-bot-will-now-he.html\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/08\/15\/parking-ticket-bot-will-now-he.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford computer science student Joshua Browder, whose DoNotPay bot helps you fight parking tickets in London and New York (it\u2019s estimated to have overturned $4M in tickets to date) has a new bot in the offing: a chatbot that helps newly homeless people in the UK create and optimise their applications for benefits. Report this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66550,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29017\/revisions\/66550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}