Culpability Quotes

“I know Charlie is right, I know I need to let those fantasies go. But I can’t help my reaction, will never escape the churn of dreams, mistakes, regrets, and terrors that is fatherhood. No matter what parents do, their children’s outcomes are neither predictable nor inevitable. Life is not an algorithm, and never will be.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Artificial Intelligence confronts us with the problem of distributed culpability. Human morality, historically, centers around agency and intentionality. We blame the drunk driver, not the car; we credit the artist, not the brush. AI systems muddy these waters. AIs are not mere tools; their learning algorithms endow them with agency. They make “decisions” based on data, albeit without consciousness or intent. A strict division between human and machine culpability is quickly becoming untenable, creating a landscape where ethical norms strain under unfamiliar weights. In”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“I am the stolid husband who buys two beds and two sets of sheets so his wife can get enough sleep, who trains his children to line up their shoes and put the dishes in the cabinets a certain way so their mother won’t have to rearrange things after them, who orders the messy world below so her great mind can soar like an eagle above the fray.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“When humans do something wrong, they generally face consequences. Even when our wrongdoing goes undetected by another—a parent, a spouse, an institution, law enforcement—we tend to experience guilt, shame, or regret. Only a psychopath lives life free of remorse.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“No matter what parents do”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“And so I told him. I told him he needed to settle with the Drummonds”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Another when the system will confront a split-second choice between striking a child on a bike and colliding with a bus full of senior citizens. And another”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“In a 1946 lecture on the problem of free will”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“In the age of Artificial Intelligence”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Because we’re in the business of improving lives and sparing lives and saving lives.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“The fleeting glimpse of normalcy makes me wonder”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“I head back toward the house at a jog”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“We implicitly elect that others die rather than that our own child experience injury”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“At one point”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Nobody meaning her father”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Can I do it later”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“And there is almost no one teaching them how to be good.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“This behavior is known as anthropomorphic projection.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Like our children”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“I’m writing about the accident.” “How so?” “I haven’t worked it out yet,” she says after a pause. “But there’s something I need to understand about what happened. Something about all the . . . how to put it. The connections.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Maj. RAMIREZ: Senator”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“This had always been Lorelei’s most primal fear”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“You know your wife’s an absolute superstar”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Lorelei was fortunate”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“among today’s young adults and twentysomethings. Many of our friends with grown children have shared their frustrations at this baffling phenomenon: kids refusing to get driver’s licenses”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“the great Gen Z slowdown,”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Now”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“I wonder who bought this compound”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“I decide not to push.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“Lorelei’s heartbeats throb against my palm; also the pulse of the thing that lives among us now”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability