Böcker av Donald Southey

Today's headlong rush into 'intelligent' assistants, automated decision-making and machine-learning systems is throwing up ethical and legal conundrums at an unprecedented rate. This imaginative collection of short stories examines just a few ...

An autonomous surgical robot attempts to kill a patient -- and paralyses them.Who is responsible? Who do the family sue?With legal action looming, a reluctant "expert" has to find out - if he can - what went wrong.Can he restore trust in this game-changing technology?

When national security drives technology, where does morality fit?Can ethics ever govern autonomous systems?New questions arise with every new advance.These short stories explore about a dozen dilemmas - including some unexpected answers.All the tales are fictional; the technologies are not.