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Can AI do it yet? · Money and legal

Can AI write my will or legal documents yet?

The main checked evidence is a US regulator's order against DoNotPay, whose 'robot lawyer' documents were never tested against a lawyer's work; we found no independent test of AI-written wills.

  • 1 of 6Claimed
  • 2pieces of evidence
The answer

Stage 1: claimed.

The rule that placed itA company we follow says, in a passage we checked word for word, that its AI can do the task.

The evidenceDoNotPay (company marketing, as quoted by the FTC) says it can. US Federal Trade Commission, DoNotPay case page, Sep 25, 2024.

A stage says how far the evidence has got. It is not a rating of the AI and not advice.

  1. 1
    ClaimedPlaced here
  2. 2
    LaunchedNo evidence yet
  3. 3
    Independently testedNo evidence yet
  4. 4
    Tested with real peopleNo evidence yet
  5. 5
    Regulator-clearedNo approval process exists
  6. 6
    Widely used with a verified recordNo evidence yet
The evidence

Everything we found.

In ladder order, newest first within each kind. Makers' own claims are labeled as theirs.

Claimed

What the makers claim

Regulator

Rules and approvals

  • US · Enforcement action · US Federal Trade Commission

    The FTC ordered DoNotPay to pay $193,000 and stop advertising that its service performs like a real lawyer without evidence, after finding it never tested its legal documents against a lawyer's work.

    “the company did not test whether its “AI lawyer” operated to the level of a human lawyer”

    US Federal Trade Commission · Feb 11, 2025

Not found in our sources yet: what has launched; what independent tests found; tested with real people; how many people use it. No regulator approves AI for this task, so the approval step doesn't apply.

Beside the stage

Track record and tools.

Failures and court cases are shown beside the stage, never folded into it. Tools are listed because the evidence names them, in no order of merit.

Tools named in the evidence
  • DoNotPayDoNotPay
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