A self-driving vehicle ploughs into an oncoming car, combusting the occupants and leaving those who survive battered and bruised and staring into their devices wondering who is to blame.
That’s the jump off point to Bruce Holsinger’s tech-lit bestseller Culpability, an exploration of agency and responsibility in the era of AI through the eyes of a lawyer, an ethicist and their screen-dependent offspring.
It’s also a broader description of our current moment as this self-propelling technology accelerates exponentially before it has been fitted with brakes, seatbelts, speed limits or a working GPS.
Working back from the crash, Holsinger skilfully weaves together the concurrent lines of causation: those who design the tech, those who deploy it, those who use it and, most profoundly, the spaces that overlap.
“Culpability” lies in these grey areas of legal and moral acc
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