[Commlist] New book: Memorybot: AI and the end of human memory

Just published by Polity in UK.
(US on 17 November).
Memorybot: AI and the End of Human Memory
Andrew Hoskins

https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=memorybot-ai-and-the-end-of-human-memory--9781509573738 



From a murdered teenager being interviewed as though he were alive to a 
widow speaking with a chatbot made through cloning the digital relics of 
her late husband, AI-generated versions of the deceased are becoming 
uncanny yet convincing in their human-like form. Are personal memories, 
so central to our sense of self, lost to a future where we feel 
compelled to embrace he human-like comfort of bots? Are the most 
traumatic and joyous parts of human existence forever subject to AI's 
manipulation of memories?

Memorybot explores the consequences of generative AI for the nature and 
survival of human memory. Hoskins argues that we are witnessing the 
emergence of a new societal paradigm, a battle between humans and 
machines in AI's shaping of reality, its erosion of anonymity and in 
making human forgetting impossible. As the book reveals, AI technologies 
are producing a new kind of memory, reflecting a past that never existed.

Written by a leading international scholar of memory studies, Memorybot 
is a haunting read for anyone concerned about the growing influence of 
AI technologies on personal and public lives, and for the fields of 
media, psychology, sociology, history and memory studies.
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