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Ep 7: AI Ethics, PosseLove & Culpability (with Dr. Lana Mahgoub)

Ep 7: AI Ethics, PosseLove & Culpability (with Dr. Lana Mahgoub)

A family survives a self-driving car accident. Two people in another car don’t.

From there, everything gets more complicated.

Doug sits down with Dr. Lana Mahgoub—psychologist, author, and longtime member of his Grinnell Posse—to talk about Culpability by Bruce Holsinger, a novel that uses AI not just as a theme, but almost as a character. What begins as a question of who caused an accident quickly turns into something harder: how responsibility works in a world where humans and machines are intertwined.

Along the way, the…

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