Ex-GWG Holdings Chair’s Conversations With AI Bot Lack Privilege

Communications between the former chair of GWG Holdings Inc. and a generative AI bot about his potential defense against securities fraud charges aren’t entitled to client-attorney privilege, a federal judge ruled.

The conversations don’t contain communications between Bradley Heppner and his counsel, and “Claude is not an attorney,” the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said in a Tuesday order.

Privileges also require a trusting human relationship, and “no such relationship exists, or could exist, between an AI user and a platform such as Claude,” Judge Jed S. Rakoff said. Heppner also couldn’t have had ...