'Every kind of creative discipline is in danger': Lincoln Lawyer author on the dangers of AI

'Every kind of creative discipline is in danger': Lincoln Lawyer author on the dangers of AI Michael Connelly says tech is moving so fast that he feared his new novel would seem'archaic' before it was published H e is one of the most prolific writers in publishing, averaging more than a novel a year. But even Michael Connelly, the author of the bestselling Lincoln Lawyer series, feared he might fall behind when writing about AI. 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writing, he witnessed the technology altering the way the world worked so rapidly that he feared his plot might become out of date.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.