Indu Nanayakkara

Just published an article on LinkedIn and would love to hear your perspective if you're on it. The Visibility Gap: What I’ve Learned About Women, Perception, and Professional Presence linkedin.com/pulse/visibili…

@mpeltz A very thought provoking discussion. Still processing the various viewpoints. @thanuki_g Love to hear your thoughts on this from both the global and local (LK) context if you may.

Your AI conversations aren't privileged. Yesterday, Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that 31 documents a defendant generated using an AI tool and later shared with his defense attorneys are not protected by attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine. The logic is simple: an AI tool is not an attorney. It has no law license, owes no duty of loyalty, and its terms of service explicitly disclaim any attorney-client relationship. Sharing case details with an AI platform is legally no different from talking through your legal situation with a friend (which is not privileged). You can't fix it after the fact, either. Sending unprivileged documents to your lawyer doesn't retroactively make them privileged. That's been settled law for years. It just hadn't been tested with AI until now. And here's what really hurt the defendant: the AI provider's privacy policy (Claude), in effect when he used the tool, expressly permits disclosure of user prompts and outputs to governmental authorities. There was no reasonable expectation of confidentiality. The core problem is the gap between how people experience AI and what's actually happening. The conversational interface feels private. It feels like talking to an advisor. But unless you negotiate for an enterprise agreement that says otherwise, you're inputting information into a third-party commercial platform that retains your data and reserves broad rights to disclose it. Judge Rakoff also flagged an interesting wrinkle: the defendant reportedly fed information from his attorneys into the AI tool. If prosecutors try to use these documents at trial, defense counsel could become a fact witness, potentially forcing a mistrial. Winning on privilege doesn't make the evidentiary picture simple. For anyone advising clients or managing legal risk, this is a wake-up call. AI tools are not a safe space for clients to process their counsel's advice and to regurgitate their legal strategy. Every prompt is a potential disclosure. Every output is a potentially discoverable document. So what do we do about it? First, attorneys need to be proactive. Advise clients explicitly that anything they put into an AI tool may be discoverable and is almost certainly not privileged. Put it in your engagement letters. Make it part of onboarding. Don't assume clients understand this, because most don't. Second, if clients want to use AI to help process legal issues (and they clearly will, increasingly), then let's give them a way to do it inside the privilege. Collaborative AI workspaces shared between attorney and client, where the AI interaction happens under counsel's direction and within the attorney-client relationship, can change the analysis entirely. I'm excited to be planning this kind of approach, and I think it's where the industry needs to head. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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@elonmusknews30 A. nobody calls it X anyways! Also, such a poor choice of a brand name. 🙄

@NisansaDdS @ransurangika 😂😂😂😂😂

@InduNan @ransurangika Ah yes. I don't think the other Nisansa de Silva is working in computer science. Ha ha ha ha ha

I am getting new followers because of the SinLlama news. But ... um ... maybe don't? I do not use twitter to discuss research most of the time. I use this to retweet jokes and fight with idiots. Go follow @ransurangika instead? Her account is almost purely dedicated to research.

@PereraAndSons Too easy 🤭

Think you know us after 123 years? 🤔 Let’s play 2 Truths & a Lie! Sniff out the fib? 👀Drop your guess and win Family First loyalty points — aka free snacks for being smart 🍩💁‍♀️ *Redeem ’em at any P&S outlet. 01 - P&S was founded in 1902 02 - Our 200th outlet is in Nuwara Eliya 03 - P&S is only Available in Sri Lanka

@BuduMalli @CBSL Aney magey kata. Don't get me started on 7 😤

දන්නේ නැති නිසා අහන්නේ අංක 7 සහ 15 වගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුව පිළිගන්නේ නැති මුදල් හුවමාරු excg කාණ්ඩයන්ට බදු ගහන්න පුළුවන්ද ස්වාමීනි? @CBSL

Misleading title. Srilankan gov goes after all citizens and businesses using big tech. You think big tech gonna pay from their own pocket? LOL. *slow clap*

The Internet Is Full of Experts. But Where Are the Wise Ones? medium.com/p/the-internet…

Didn't think this would hit THIS fast. Pleasantly surprised. 😌

@elonmusk Even before India and Pakistan? I'm curious to know why. @Starlink

Starlink now available in Sri Lanka! 🇱🇰

@David_Blacker @NewsWireLK Ikr? 🤣

@NewsWireLK He says it like it’s a bad thing.

Wimal says 40 former MPs, including him, will be arrested ift.tt/BTFw2ik

@DAO_JOA @0xyyy77 This! Box-breathing 💯 And for the next time, also try this; deep breaths + loud exhale/sigh (blow air out). Just a few times.

Damn interesting and enlightening conversation here at #Spike where @Bhanoob grinding @Chathurangaab (not in a bad way lol) 😬. These conversations are pivotal for us, founders, and biz owners. Say Hi, if you're here! 👋

ABSOLUTELY, This! 🙄 The issue has been there among both @PickMeLK and @Uber_SL drivers for the longest time. I discontinued card payment years ago when drivers did the whole start & end trip without passenger thing. I got refunded after complaining but the hassle was too much.

Imagine sumbody tryina steal your car or remove a part down 'Panchikawatte'.... or something. 🤔 😆 #insidejoke #sosrilanka

@pearl_minna @r_evarts @MyWishLK I didn't do extensive research on this, but if what you say is true, this is pretty disturbing even in terms of a paid PR campaign! 🙄 All I can say is that this app or site isn't the first of its kind. There have been many even after ours. So, the claim they make is invalid.

@InduNan @r_evarts @MyWishLK I am not surprised to C chef on board, I just checked it on the run, and there is no Forbes list that came up..if any one find it, should make it public here? I remember there were some fake best Sri Lanka scientists listed that were published on a daily mirror & got fired bak

3 Sri Lankans were featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025 list this year. Nikin Matharaarachchi - (SM, Marketing & Advertising) Yanika Amarasekera Siyaguna - (Retail & E-commerce) Charith N Silva - The Arts (Art, Style F&B) forbes.com/30-under-30/20…

@erangatennakoon @r_evarts @MyWishLK @shagee_1 @chamara LOL!!! Definitely in this case.

@InduNan @r_evarts @MyWishLK @shagee_1 @chamara Hahaha No, it was about how Forbes claims something for the first time when it’s actually not. Can we relay this information from them?

@erangatennakoon @r_evarts @MyWishLK @shagee_1 @chamara Oh ok... who then? Said what? Curious lol

@InduNan @r_evarts @MyWishLK @shagee_1 @chamara Not Chamara.