Chapter 15: Artificial intelligence and social memory: towards the cyborgian remembrance of an advancing mnemo-technic

• Main Author: Merrill, Samuel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing 2023
• Subjects: UYQ; Memory; Remembering; AI; Technology; Cyborg; Technics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In this chapter, I conceptually explore the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and social memory. I start by briefly outlining the idea of social memory and positioning AI systems as mnemonic technologies. Thereafter I discuss how memory has primarily been conflated with storage by AI...