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Mi Abogado AI
A scoping study exploring how AI-assisted tools can help lawyers and interdisciplinary teams in Chile's child-protection legal programs spend less time on administrative work and more on directly supporting children. Working with Programa Mi Abogado and NAD, it maps real workflows, identifies tasks suited to AI assistance, and produces design concepts, an MVP specification, and an evaluation-ready roadmap. It builds on causal evidence that stronger legal representation reduces children's time in institutional care, and is designed to augment professional judgment, not replace it.
Target population
Lawyers, social workers, and psychologists in Chile's child-protection legal-defense programs; ultimately children in alternative care
Key outcomes
- Workflow and bottleneck mapping
- Design concepts and MVP specification
- Evaluation-readiness plan for a future trial
Team
- Winnie Van Dijk — Principal Investigator (Yale)
- Joseph J. Doyle — Co-Investigator (MIT)
- Andrés Hojman — Co-Investigator (PUC Chile)
- Christopher Neilson — Co-Investigator
- Valentina Hurtado — Project Lead, Chile
