دانلود کتاب Culpability 2025

Culpability (2025) by Bruce Holsinger opens with the Cassidy‑Shaw family riding in their SensTrek self‑driving minivan on the way to a lacrosse tournament when a sudden intervention by their 17‑year‑old son Charlie causes a crash that kills two elderly motorists. Narrated by Noah, Charlie’s father—a lawyer married to Lorelei, a renowned AI ethicist—the novel combines family drama with urgent questions about fault and responsibility in a world increasingly reliant on autonomous systems. As the family recovers at a Chesapeake Bay vacation rental, each member wrestles with guilt, secrecy, and the chilling possibility that the car’s AI may bear more blame than the human driver.

Through sharp psychological insight and technological speculation, Bruce Holsinger explores how moral responsibility becomes diffuse in the age of AI. Neighboring them at their rental is Daniel Monet, a charismatic tech billionaire whose daughter entangles romantically with Charlie, further complicating loyalties and tensions. With excerpts from Lorelei’s academic work and transcripts of one daughter’s interactions with a chatbot, the novel interrogates distributed culpability, family loyalty, and the ethical consequences of ceding autonomy to smart machines¹.