“In The Proving Ground, #MickeyHaller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an #ArtificialIntelligence company whose #ChatBot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.

Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly #unregulated and exploding #AIBusiness and the lack of #training #guardrails. Along the way he joins up with journalist #JackMcEvoy (The Poet), 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.”

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