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Scale Justice received a $5 million grant for its development team behind the legal artificial intelligence tool Reclamo.AI — a digital program meant to connect women, immigrant and non-English-speaking workers with legal resources who are facing harassment, underpayment, wage theft, and other violations on the job.
Conceived and developed by nonprofit Scale Justice’s Rodrigo Camarena, Reclamo is currently an AI-powered chatbot that receives questions in English and Spanish from workers about issues they’re having at their workplace and offers solutions to resolve them.
Users can ask the bot — which has been trained exclusively on material from legal assistance groups — various labor law questions and receive specific answers, along with information on how to contact an attorney, if needed.
In the past 12 months, more than 5,000 people have used Reclamo; and the tool helped people file more than $1.5 million in lost wages claims during an 18-month period before it began integrating AI into its system, Camarena said. He said the funding will allow him and his team to exponentially expand Reclamo.AI’s impact and allow the tool to reach thousands more workers who otherwise wouldn’t get the legal help or support they need when experiencing labor law violations or poor working conditions.
“This funding is going to allow us to radically and dramatically expand the impact that we’ve had to date,” Camarena said. “It’s really a once-in-a-lifetime...
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