AI ruling leads to warnings from US lawyers: your chats could be used against you

As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are advising their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is at stake.

Those warnings became even more urgent after a U.S. federal judge in New York ruled this year that the former CEO of a bankrupt financial services company could not protect his AI chats from prosecutors seeking securities fraud charges against him.

Following the ruling, lawyers have pointed out that conversations with chatbots like Claude from Anthropic and OpenAI…