Workshop: Memory and AI
\nDate and place: 5 November - Facultade de Letras\, Universidade de Lisboa\, Portugal
\nKeynote speaker: John Sutton (University of Stirling\, UK)
\nOrganizers: Steven Gouveia (Universidade de Porto\, Portugal)
\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Marina Trakas (Universidade de Lisboa\, Portugal)
\nFrom 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.
\nTopics might include (but are not limited to):
\nHow do AI systems shape the formation\, retention\, and retrieval of memories?
\nHow do AI systems transform autobiographical memory\, narrative identity\, or the sense of self?
\nDoes AI differ in significant ways from previous memory technologies and cultural artifacts in its integration with human memory?
\nCan AI help individuals overcome memory biases\, distortions\, and misinformation?
\nConversely\, can AI reinforce\, amplify\, or create new forms of memory bias?
\nCan AI be used for therapeutic purposes in memory disorders such as Alzheimer&rsquo\;s disease?
\nWhat kinds of epistemic dependence arise when individuals increasingly rely on AI-mediated remembering?
\nWhat role might AI play in collective memory\, public history\, and cultural remembrance?
\nCan AI contribute to the preservation of endangered memories\, traditions\, and cultural heritage?
\nHow might AI reshape individual and collective processes of forgetting?
\nWhat are the ethical implications of AI systems that influence what individuals and societies remember?
\nHow should responsibility for memory errors be understood in contexts of human-AI interaction?
\nWhat new forms of mnemonic injustice and epistemic injustice might emerge through AI-assisted remembering?
\nCan AI systems remember? And forget?
\nHow does machine unlearning compare to human forgetting\, and what are its ethical stakes?
\nIs there an ethical duty for AI systems to remember and to forget certain types of data?
\nThe language of the workshop is English\, there are no fees\, and researchers from all disciplines and career stages are welcome! Note however that we are unable to provide financial support for accepted speakers.
\nSubmissions should be sent to filosofiayneurociencia@gmail.com\, and should include two separate files:
\nA short bio with identification and academic affiliation
\nTitle of the talk and anonymized abstract (max. 500 words)
\nDeadline for submissions: 25 July
\nOASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguí\;stica da Universidade de Lisboa\, 13-16 October\, 2026.
\nThe OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics\, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. How do these building blocks get combined? 3. And how do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the first two questions? For more information\, see the OASIS credo.
\nWe welcome submissions from semantics and semantics-adjacent domains\, including philosophy and the cognitive sciences. We will host sessions bringing together linguists and philosophers to discuss foundational questions in linguistics and their relation to broader philosophical issues. The sessions will introduce some of the central assumptions and frameworks of contemporary linguistic theory and provide informal opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange. Philosophers and others interested in language\, mind\, or cognition are particularly encouraged to attend.
\nInvited speakers:
\nSatellite session: Creoles as windows on language and cognition This special session will focus on Creoles as full-fledged natural languages that emerged in certain socio-historical environments shaped by European colonial expansion. For any given theory of Creole formation\, those contexts involve language contact and innovation through complex processes of language acquisition\, therefore providing a particular starting point for research on how conceptual categories are mapped into diverse grammatical systems.
\nAbstract submission:
\nAbstracts are due on May 15\, 2026. Submission will be via the conference Open Review page. Authors should be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles in the Call for Papers:
\nIf you are submitting for the satellite workshop\, please indicate this by including &ldquo\;[for satellite workshop]&rdquo\; under the title of your abstract.
\nAbstracts must be anonymous\, in pdf format\, 2 A4 pages\, in a font size no less than 12pt. You may submit at most two abstracts but can be single author on only one.
\nLinguists and any others submitting very technical research: It is absolutely necessary that you do what you can to make your abstract accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. This doesn't mean eschewing all formalism\, but do pitch your abstract so that a non-technical reader can get something interesting out of it.
\nImportant dates:
\nContact: oasis6lisboa@letras.ulisboa.pt
\nMeeting URL: https://oasis.cnrs.fr/meetings/oasis-6
\nOrganizing Committee:
\nWorkshop: Memory and AI
\n\nDate and place: 5 November - Facultade de Letras\, Universidade de Lisboa\, Portugal
\n\nKeynote speaker: John Sutton (University of Stirling\, UK)
\n\nOrganizers: Steven Gouveia (Universidade de Porto\, Portugal)
\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Marina Trakas (Universidade de Lisboa\, Portugal)
\n\n\nFrom 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.
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