Artificial intelligence is accelerating exponentially before it has brakes, seat-belts, speed limits or a working GPS
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.
Peter Lewis is the executive director of Essential, a progressive strategic communications and research company that undertook research for Labor in the last election and conducts quantitative research for Guardian Australia. He is the host of Per Capita’s Burning Platforms podcast
