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UVA Data Points · Friday · 41 min

AI Responsibility and Culpability

A self-driving car swerves. Someone is hurt, but who’s to blame? The company? The driver? AI can’t be put on trial. It can’t go to jail, and it can’t feel remorse. So when AI makes a lethal mistake, who answers for it? That question drives Culpability, an Oprah Book Club Selection by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia. He’s joined today by David Danks, professor of philosophy and data science, also at the University of Virginia. Listen to a medieval literature expert and an AI ethicist discuss this controversial topic, because long before the age of algorithms, scholars were already asking who is responsible for our choices and what we owe to the things we create.

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A self-driving car swerves. Someone is hurt, but who’s to blame?

The company? The driver? AI can’t be put on trial. It can’t go to jail, and it can’t feel remorse. So when AI makes a lethal mistake, who answers for it?

That question drives Culpability, an Oprah Book Club Selection by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia. He’s joined today by David Danks, professor of philosophy and data science, also at the University of Virginia.

Listen to a medieval literature expert and an AI ethicist discuss this controversial topic, because long before the age of algorithms, scholars were already asking who is responsible for our choices and what we owe to the things we create.

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