{"product_id":"the-proving-ground","title":"The Proving Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepresenting the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy’s digging ultimate delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too afraid to speak up. The case is fraught with danger because billions are at stake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is said that machines became smarter than humans on the day in 1997 that IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparov with a gambit called “the knight’s sacrifice.” Haller will take a similar gambit in court to defeat the mega forces of the AI industry lined up against him and his clients.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51876001055037,"sku":"9781761473401","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9781761473401.jpg?v=1782338490","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/the-proving-ground","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}