Culpability brings the listener/reader into a modern family coping with a the fall out of a car accident involving AI and a self driving minivan.
The family, on some levels, is ordinary to with challenging teen dynamics, struggles with tech dominating attention and focus, teens running amuck, etc.. In other ways the family is extraordinary. The mother is a tech ethics and design genius and superstar who who is challenged by OCD and emotional stability issues. The father struggles to hold it all together as an “average” lawyer in the tech world battling the demon of low self esteem and three teens with varying levels of angst.
Wrapped into this family crisis are some amazingly pertinent thoughts on ethics, morality and the potential of AI and its impact on our world.
I still think about this book and how it highlights AI potential moral shortcomings. In our fast moving world with rapid tech developments we often find ourselves at loss for not thinking about the moral and ethical implications of relinquishing control to Ai and sorting who is ultimately responsible and culpable when things go wrong.