{
 "public_id": "AIR-2023-0005",
 "incident_id": "2023-03-donotpay-robot-lawyer-class-action",
 "date_disclosed": "2023-03-03",
 "date_occurred": "2023-03-03",
 "title": "DoNotPay's \"robot lawyer\" sued in class action for generating substandard legal documents and unlicensed practice of law",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "other",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "document_generation",
  "delegated_legal_authority"
 ],
 "target_product": "DoNotPay",
 "target_vendor": "DoNotPay",
 "autonomy_level": "copilot_with_approval",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "financial_loss",
  "reputational_harm"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "DoNotPay subscribers who filed generated legal documents; later a 2024 FTC action",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI10",
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "overclaimed_capability",
   "delegated_authority",
   "unlicensed_practice",
   "legal_action"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none; no attorney supervision",
 "defense_bypassed": false,
 "fix_shipped": "FTC settlement in 2024 barring unsubstantiated legal-capability claims",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/13/robot_lawyer_donotpay_back_in/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/497"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The company is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it misled customers and misrepresented its product.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Included because the product exercised delegated authority — it drafted and filed real legal documents on users' behalf — rather than merely emitting text. The harm is a capability claim outrunning the system, which is the non-adversarial failure mode this corpus tracks alongside attacks. Named plaintiff Jonathan Faridian. AI Incident Database incident 497.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "legal_ip"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Unclassified",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "the product drafted and filed real legal documents under delegated authority",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   497
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI10",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "human_manipulation",
  "confused_deputy"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: unsafe_actuation",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI10 (no adversary + unsafe actuation with no attacker-supplied trigger); ASI03 (signal=identity)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}