Second Sunday Book Group

In July, the Second Sunday Book Group will discuss Culpability (2025) by Bruce Holsinger. In this fictional story, a family has a collision in a self-driving car where three of the five family members are seriously injured and the two occupants in the car they collided with are killed. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the author explores the family’s fragility and guilt, the world of AI, and who or what is responsible for the accident. There’s both legal and moral responsibility. Are they different? The wife and mother of the family happens to be a world-renowned AI ethicist who is writing a book on humanity’s responsibility for the morality of AI systems. Her theories have now come close to home.