Threat or Benefit? AI, the unconscious, and the reshaping of history

The collective memory of a society is essential for its own understanding, for its common identity and for its democratic self-conception. What are the foundations of our memory?

With the rapid adoption of generative AI and the growing use of these technologies by the media industry, we face new challenges: biases in training and source data and inherent flaws in the technology of machine learning can lead to an imbalance, even to the point that some historical events disappear from the collective memory.

How can technology be used to manipulate our individual as well as our collective memory? Interdisciplinary discussions are essential to understanding the problem, future scenarios, and possible solutions.