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Barcode30053003801688
StatusChecked Out
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF CONN
Title The proving ground / Michael Connelly.
Author Connelly, Michael, 1956- author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
Checked OutParis-Bourbon30053003801688F CONN10/20/2025 Due on 11/11/2025

Catalog Details

Personal Name Connelly, Michael, 1956- author.
Title Statement The proving ground / Michael Connelly.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Ã2025
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
Physical Description 384 pages ; 25 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Series Statement Lincoln lawyer novel ; [8]
Summary, Etc. "Following 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. Representing 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. It 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Haller, Mickey (Fictitious character) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Trials Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Journalists Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Artificial intelligence Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Lawyers Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Legal stories.
Index Term-Genre/Form Legal fiction (Literature) lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft
Series Added Entry-Personal Name Connelly, Michael, 1956- Lincoln lawyer novel.

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