ABA panel tells lawyers generative AI poses uncertain data confidentiality risks

An American Bar Association committee on legal ethics has issued guidance for lawyers on the use of generative artificial intelligence, warning that the risks to protecting confidential client information are evolving and uncertain, while advising the legal community to stay abreast of developments in the fast-paced AI industry.

“Because of the uncertainty surrounding GAI tools’ ability to protect such information and the uncertainty about what happens to information both at input and output, it will be difficult to evaluate the...