AI afterlives: digital memory and synthetic pasts

Kidd, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0188-2140 and Nieto McAvoy, Eva 2026. AI afterlives: digital memory and synthetic pasts. Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures, Bloomsbury.

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Abstract

AI Afterlives offers 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.

Item Type:	Book - authored
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
ISBN:	9781350437524
Last Modified:	06 Aug 2026 09:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/187384

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