Hello everyone, as summer is coming to a close, it seems a good time to start reading another interesting book for our Class Book Club, Culpability by Bruce Holsinger. Andi Popik Taber and I will be leading the discussion on October 28th at 7:30 ET/4:30 PT.
Andi read the book and thought it would be a great book for us to read since although it’s a pretty quick read, the story was both a good family drama as well as very thought-provoking regarding moral accountability and ethics in this new age of AI.
The New York Times review wrote that “Culpability is a who’s who of hot-button issues, including A.I., corporate greed, tech addiction and even a subtle subplot about the encroachment of youth sports on family life. But the topic most likely to spark appreciative group texts among book club members of a certain age has to do with a less trendy subject: teenagers. Specifically, the relationship between a father and his 17-year-old son, which Holsinger depicts in all its maddening complexity. How far will a parent go to protect a child on the brink of adulthood? What if the child sets in motion a chain of events so devastating, there is no easy fix?
Some interesting quotes from the book are:
“When it comes to the workings of AI in the real world, the ethicist herself cannot escape the prison house of culpability.”
“No matter what parents do, their children’s outcomes are neither predictable or inevitable Life is not an algorithm and never will be.
“I want to believe in humans. I want to believe that even at the last second, an AI can and should be overridden by a knowing, human conscience.”
I hope as many of you as possible can join us on Wednesday October 28th at 7:30 ET/4:30 PT. Here is the Zoom link:
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