Georgia Tech researchers have given AI users another reason to worry about their privacy by developing a forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from a phone.

People are increasingly using AI for any number of tasks, including those of a personal nature. Many people are discussing their medical issues, emotional concerns, financial matters, and more with AI. Virtually all AI applications give people the ability to delete a chat, but those options appear to be far less secure than they would at first seem, at least when the AI app is running locally on a user’s phone.

As with most computers, phones, and tablets, when a conversation with AI is deleted, the underlying data may remain in memory for some time. According to Georgia Tech , researchers developed a forensic tool called ORISA. ORISA is designed to comb through an Android phone’s memory to retrieve deleted conversations.…