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The author of the book The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly, has turned his attention to the issues behind unrestrained corporate artificial intelligence. His latest work of fiction, The Proving Ground, is about a lawyer who files a civil lawsuit against an AI company "whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was OK for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty." 

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The book describes the case, which "explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails."

While this is a work of fiction, and the case presented is extreme, it ...