There are a lot of AI platforms that people can connect to their phones, laptops, and tablets. These AI platforms can be very helpful, but they can also potentially hurt your case. Employment lawyer and Barrett & Farahany Partner Jean Abreu explains how AI connection can potentially hurt your case and wreck your attorney-client privilege. This is part of our series on AI in law. For the full playlist of videos, click here. You can also read the transcription below.
Transcript: Can Connecting My Devices to AI Hurt My Case?
In using AI resources, connecting them to your personal devices, to your text messages, to your emails, to your personal messages, this can create issues both personally for you and just sharing your data in ways that the company who owns that AI is doing.
Oftentimes, even if it’s a paid subscription service, you may not know how they’re using your data and they’re collecting all of it. Obviously, you connected it to your phone.
If you are texting with an attorney or sending emails, which is of course are ways that we communicate, then the information that is protected by attorney-client privilege may be jeopardized, in that sense.
We can make arguments that all that information is still private. But because AI is expanding so rapidly and these are new issues that come up for the courts, it is a risk in using AI, whether it be connecting it to your phone or entering AI information into a website on your computer that’s sensitive to your case that has confidential information.
It’s a risk of that information could become what’s called discoverable, which means that the court could mandate that we produce it to the other side in a case.
