Memory and AI

Workshop: Memory and AI

Date and place: 5 November - Facultade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Keynote speaker: John Sutton (University of Stirling, UK)

Organizers: Steven Gouveia (Universidade de Porto, Portugal)

                    Marina Trakas (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

From writing and archives to photographs and other recording devices, cultural artifacts have long been deeply integrated into human cognitive life. As Merlin Donald's seminal work has shown, these technologies do not merely store information for us; they transform human memory itself, shaping not only what we remember, but also how we remember and how we relate to our personal and collective pasts. In recent years, AI has emerged as a new kind of cognitive artifact whose role in human cognition may extend far beyond that of earlier technologies. Building on the work of John Sutton and others on distributed and socially extended memory, this workshop seeks to examine how AI systems interact with, support, transform, and distort human memory and remembering processes and practices.