The University of Law & Calls9

Building an AI Welfare Assistant (Proof of concept)

The University of Law & Calls9

Throughout his experience, Patrick Grant, a Senior Lecturer & Project Director for LegalTech & Innovation at ULaw, has noticed that millions of people in the UK use advice centres and non-profits to get help for free. However, only a smart percentage of them receive telephone or face-to-face help due to various reasons. He then approached Calls9 to see if we could use AI to help these organisations and the people using them.

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The Challenge

Patrick noted that advice centres serve millions, yet some struggle to access aid due to barriers such as language. Particularly, many non-English speaking immigrants urgently require help but are hindered from accessing digital or personal advice.

Consequently, Patrick and the Calls9 team initiated a tech solution to this problem and presented it at the LegalTech in Leeds Conference. They used a real case study of "Rozi", a Tigrinya-speaking single mother of five without food, nappies or electricity, desperately needing assistance.

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The Delivery

Calls9 embarked on a research and development project to craft a Generative AI Assistant. This tool aims to provide free advice to individuals of all backgrounds and languages.

Using the amazing capabilities of Generative AI technologies, we created a demo AI Assistant that:

  • Turns speech to text: Rozi can create a message in her native language.
  • Translates languages: The message can be translated into English automatically.
  • Finds information: So she can automatically get advice from the Internet as well as contact details for a non-profit relevant to her situation and location.
  • Carries out actions: The assistant crafts and sends a message to the relevant organisation as Rozi. It will then translate the reply of the organisation back to her native language.  

We included detailed screenshots of the above at the end of this page. Please note that this project is still in development, and we created this demo for the purpose of presenting it to the Conference.

03

The Results

Using this assistant, Rozi can:

  • Instruct her AI assistant in her own language.
  • Have relevant information automatically returned to her. 
  • Instruct the AI to carry out related tasks.

A game-changer not just for the non-profit advice sector but for so many other businesses that can develop their own AI Agents and Assistants to elevate customer service and improve customer experience. 

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