Without effective regulation of AI, society is facing a head-on collision with a driverless car

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.