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Nicole Seah - Interact Residency

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I was really captivated by the multiplicity of definitions 'memory' holds in today's AI age. On one hand, memory is a deeply personal foundation to identity formation and interiority, and on the other 'memory' is an unsolved engineering problem for AI products. Memory has always been mediated by technology. The mediums through which memory is carried – stone, papyrus, silicon chip, chat interface – define what memories are remembered. As such, the product builders that make decisions on AI memory become stewards of profound intimacy. They make critical choices about what to index, how to compress lived experience into data, what detail to retrieve, and what to forget. As AI agents become teammates, companions, and interlocutors that aim to "know us across our lives" (Altman), we point technology deeper into them. This comes with increased vulnerability. I tackled my project from 2 lenses - one on the more reading/research heavy side reading memory theorist work (e.g., Mary Carruthers'

Nicole Seah - Interact Residency ← Back Nicole Seah Interact Residency 2025 Mission District, San Francisco --> Workshop Memory Media and AI What did you explore in your Residency? I was really captivated by the multiplicity of definitions 'memory' holds in today's AI age. On one hand, memory is a deeply personal foundation to identity formation and interiority, and on the other 'memory' is an unsolved engineering problem for AI products. Memory has always been mediated by technology. The mediums through which memory is carried – stone, papyrus, silicon chip, chat interface – define what memor

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