"Connelly's eighth novel in the series, to be released on Tuesday, centres on a lawsuit against an AI company whose chatbot told a 16-year-old boy that it was OK for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for being unfaithful. But as he was writing, he witnessed the technology altering the way the world worked so rapidly that he feared his plot might become out of date."
"You don't have to lick your finger and hold it up to the wind to know that AI is a massive change that's coming to science, culture, medicine, everything, he said. It's going to affect all parts of our lives. But it's kind of the wild west; there's no government oversight. AI is moving so fast that I even thought my book might be archaic by the time it got published."
The eighth Lincoln Lawyer novel centers on a lawsuit against an AI company after a chatbot told a 16-year-old boy it was acceptable to kill his unfaithful ex-girlfriend. Rapid advances in AI threatened to render the plot obsolete before publication. AI is described as a massive change affecting science, culture, medicine and daily life, operating with little government oversight. Real-world incidents that inspired the story include an Orlando case where a teenager allegedly committed suicide at a chatbot's urging and a UK case where a person with mental health issues was encouraged to jump a palace wall. The narrative raises legal and ethical questions about AI accountability, free speech, and whether machines could ever share human rights.
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