“Without acknowledgment of wrongdoing, how can there be regret? Without self-consciousness of guilt, how can there be remorse? And without regret and remorse, how can there be moral growth?” RegretGuiltRemorse Book:Culpability Source: Culpability
“By now Morrissey has circled the lot. Her sedan slows at the stop sign fronting the main road. One of her taillights is cracked, a detail that gives me an unkind flicker of amusement. She lifts her phone and scowls at the screen as she types: driving directions, a takeout food order on an app, maybe a text. The phone remains in her raised hand as she pulls out onto the boulevard, where she guns the engine and shoots away, an angry bullet in the sun.” ScienceDramaScience FictionAi Book:Culpability Source: Culpability
“Lorelei isn't Zeus. I see that now with scathing clarity. No, she is Atlas, with an entire world poised between her shoulder blades, crushing her with its moral weight. The world of artificial minds in all their terrifying incarnations. Self-driving cars saving innumerable lives but ending others. Platforms that enable information sharing and yet also the manipulative spread of disinformation that leads to the overthrow of democratic governments. Autonomous weapons systems hunting out terrorists while taking out busloads of civilians. And who knows what other nonhuman perversions of human imaginings. And Lorelei sees herself as their conscience. As their soul.” ScienceDramaScience FictionAi Book:Culpability Source: Culpability
“The drone rises above the trees, makes a few lazy spirals in the air, and hovers there over the edge of the pond, the little boy fully in control, for now.” ScienceDramaScience FictionAi Book:Culpability Source: Culpability
“I am scaffolding. Scaffolding. I am the grid of poles and platforms reinforcing the towering skyscraper under occasional repair. I am the thick stone buttress bolstering the great cathedral. I am the dense concrete pier anchoring the soaring bridge.” ScienceDramaScience FictionAi Book:Culpability Source: Culpability