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  • 3/4 Synthetic Pasts: Designing Memory in the Age of AI

     

    Dr. Jenny Kidd, University of Cardiff, Wales 

    Synthetic Pasts: Designing Memory in the Age of AI       

    Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 5:30 PM EST 

    Join the event via YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgQDl7uBJtk 

     

     

    What happens when AI can speak, act, or even remember for someone who’s no longer alive? This talk introduces Synthetic Pasts, a research project exploring how AI is reshaping our relationship with memory, archives, and the past. Using the example of “Deathbots” — AI personas generated from a person’s digital remains —it asks how our pasts are increasingly mediated, contested, and sometimes commercialized by technology. The session invites you to consider practitioners’ responsibilities when designing, translating, or simulating memory in the age of AI. 

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    This event is brought to you by the UConn Humanities Instititute and is part of its Artificial Intelligence and the Human Initiative  

    In collaboration with UConn’s Department of Digital Media & Design 

    For more information, contact: Digital Media & Design at meredith.friedman@uconn.edu