"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.
