We are proud to announce the launch of the primary Special Journal Assortment on AI and MEMORY with Andrew Hoskins’ agenda setting article, AI and Memory. We now welcome pioneering proposals within the emergent area of AI Memory Wave Research for publication on this assortment within the Gold Open Access Cambridge Journal of Memory, Thoughts & Media. This assortment is launched at a tipping level in the event of AI and associated technologies and companies, which heralds emerging websites of contestation between humans and computer systems within the shaping of reality. Large language models (LLMs) scrape huge quantities of so-known as ‘publicly available’ information from the internet, thus enabling new ways for the past-for people and societies alike-to be represented and reimagined at an unprecedented scale. This epochal shift from human reliance to dependency on sensible or net-primarily based applied sciences and networks for imagining the previous has, from the early a part of this century, come to define the phrases of our primary sociality, interpersonal relationships, schooling, on a regular basis communications, and work practices.

Nonetheless, the 2020s are ushering in the brand new capability of Generative AI and supported providers to ship on the a lot heralded but undelivered promise made from digital applied sciences and media. More lately, these developments have been centered on so-known as Agentic AI, or programs that show the characteristics of autonomy, intentionality, and models of independent decision-making. These emergent forces more and more bring the previous into the orbit of machinic oversight and control. This apparent realisation of a once fictional and hypothetical prophecy, that of a complete memory, is likewise driven by an all-encompassing drive to archive and code life itself. A key concern right here is in how AI and, specifically, Generative and Agentic AI are each transformative of and a risk to individual agency over the remembering and forgetting of the past. These pasts, more and more produced via an array of devices and services that we dedicate ourselves to recording the small print and minutiae of our lives, is made ‘accessible’ via AI-generated applications that bury the origins, selections and orderings of Memory Wave in opaque data networks.

In this manner, the operative logic of AI and its generative capability is realising new pasts with out our consent. With most technological advances that somewhat analogously replace or augment human practices, much of the debate at this time considerations whether or not expertise is the difficulty, or the people, companies, organisations, regulatory day of the primary month of the Jewish calendar. Jews actually observe a number of New 12 months celebrations throughout the year. Rosh Hashanah begins with the first day of the seventh month, Tishri. In keeping with the Talmud, it was on this present day that God created mankind. As such, Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of the human race.