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AI afterlives digital memory and synthetic pasts / Jenny Kidd and Eva Nieto McAvoy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kidd, Jenny, author.
- McAvoy, Eva Nieto, author.
- Series:
- Bloomsbury studies in digital cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtual humans (Artificial intelligence).
- Deep learning (Machine learning)--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Deep learning (Machine learning).
- Archival materials--Reproduction.
- Archival materials.
- History.
- Cultural property--Protection.
- Cultural property.
- Digital media--Social aspects.
- Digital media.
- Memory.
- history (discipline).
- Medical Subjects:
- History.
- Genre:
- primary sources.
- Primary sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London Bloomsbury Academic 2026
- Summary:
- "AI Afterlivesoffers the first empirically informed investigation of how algorithms and automation are being used to ‘revive’ media fragments from the past, from animating old photographs of our ancestors, to creating deathbots, or using the likeness of deceased actors in films. It draws on a series of unique and innovatively designed datasets to trace the ethical, emotional, mnemonic and political dimensions of creating synthetic pasts. Situated at the intersection of Digital Memory, New Media and Critical Algorithm Studies, the book speaks to a range of pressing concerns about what futures our uses of AI will facilitate, what ethical challenges these systems suggest in the present, and how our relationship to the past is oriented and experienced"-- Bloomsbury Collections
- Contents:
- Introduction : Deep learning technologies and the future past
- Synthetic media | Synthetic pasts
- Genealogy platforms and AI afterlives
- ‘Deathbots’ and the platformization of remembering
- Datafied bodies on stage and screen
- AI afterlives in the museum
- Conclusion : Rethinking memory, mourning and mediation in the age of synthetic media
- Data coda
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed July 27, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print versio: Kidd, Jenny AI afterlives
- ISBN:
- 9781350437548
- 1350437549
- 9781350437531
- 1350437530
- 9781350437555
- 1350437557
- OCLC:
- 1593362770
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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