描述
By: Bruce Holsinger
"A family is traveling down the road in their autonomous vehicle when they get into a horrible collision. Someone in the other car is killed. Is the driver responsible? The carmaker? The company that made the self-driving software? A novel that deals with big questions like that could become ponderous, but Holsinger keeps the action moving. You don’t know which way the plot will go next." -- Bill Gates
"Compelling."―Literary Review
"An irresistibly anxious book."―The Washington Post
“A family drama with a shocking twist."―The New York Times
"I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!"―Oprah Winfrey
When the Cassidy-Shaws’ driverless minivan fatally collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat. His father, Noah, is beside him, and in the back with his younger siblings is his mother, Lorelei—a renowned AI researcher—who is lost in her work.
During a weeklong retreat on the Chesapeake Bay, the Cassidy-Shaws wrestle with the moral fallout of the crash as a routine police enquiry starts to unravel. As Lorelei’s increasingly odd behaviour stirs her husband’s suspicions that there may be a darker truth behind the incident, the arrival of tech billionaire Daniel Monet (who has a mysterious history with Lorelei) cements them. When Charlie falls for Monet’s teenage daughter, tensions among the Cassidy-Shaws reach breaking point.
A psychosocial thriller and a propulsive family drama, Culpability explores a world newly shaped by non-human forces such as chatbots and autonomous cars, and forces us to examine our own relationship to artificial intelligence, and the nuanced ways in which we are all, in fact, culpable.
Key Selling Points:
• Timely and relevant novel that blends gripping domestic suspense with the ethical complexities of AI
Target Readership:
• For fans of Jessamine Chan and Liane Moriarty it is quintessential commercial book club candidate—Leave the World Behind meets Little Fires Everywhere.
• Appeals to fans of moral thrillers and domestic drama