AI complicates old internet privacy risks

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.