"Are the Government's Conversations with AI Accessible Under Public Records Laws and FOIA?"

Government workers use artificial intelligence to draft policies, letters, and grant applications. Requesters are filing public records requests to see those prompts and chatbot responses. Some agencies release these logs, while others withhold them under exemptions like deliberative process privilege.

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