Article by Brian X. Chen: “This month, a federal judge ruled that a man’s conversations with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot were not protected by attorney-client privilege even though he had used the chatbot to prepare to talk with lawyers.
Two weeks ago, Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of doorbell cameras, provoked widespread outrage when it aired a Super Bowl ad showing how artificial intelligence could be used to find lost dogs. Critics quickly noted that it could also be used to monitor an entire neighborhood. The company has been on an apology tour ever since.
And over the past week, news surfaced that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, had been aware of a British Columbia woman’s interactions with the chatbot and considered reporting her to the authorities months before she committed a mass shooting.
While OpenAI faces questions about whether it should have been more proactive about reporting what she wrote, the incident highlighted the possibility that A.I. companies will be under more pressure to share private chat logs with the authorities…(More)”
