{"product_id":"the-proving-ground-by-michael-connelly-9780316563826","title":"The Proving Ground","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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 ultimately 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\n\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643392278764,"sku":"9780316563826","price":74.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b1966bc1967b01e8eed61701d234011f.jpg?v=1779227664","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-proving-ground-by-michael-connelly-9780316563826","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}