{"id":89068,"date":"2025-10-20T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89068\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:20:22","slug":"michael-connelly-lincoln-lawyer-fights-ai-company-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89068\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer fights AI company in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p paraeid=\"{15f1a702-cdba-4a5b-b4ea-7ca543493199}{63}\" paraid=\"1531689552\">Best-selling American novelist Michael Connelly has written 41 novels and sold more than 89 million books. His eighth novel in the Lincoln Lawyer series will be released next week.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{15f1a702-cdba-4a5b-b4ea-7ca543493199}{79}\" paraid=\"749601695\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The Proving Ground\u00a0sees LA\u2013based defence attorney Mickey Haller file a civil lawsuit against an AI company whose chatbot told a 16-year-old boy it was ok to kill his ex-girlfriend. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{15f1a702-cdba-4a5b-b4ea-7ca543493199}{92}\" paraid=\"1793718626\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Michael is with Jim to discuss the explosion of AI, the lack of regulation around it, and the inspiration for some of his plots and well-loved characters.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZG4KF_Michael_Connelly_2_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"675\" alt=\"Michael Connelly and The Proving Ground book cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Cat Westerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best-selling American novelist Michael Connelly has written 41 novels and sold more than 89 million books. His eighth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[48,489,47,156,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-89068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-audio","tag-books","tag-current-affairs","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}