Fall of Living Memory: Forgetting the Atomic Bombings of Japan

It has been over 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Luli van der Does and Andrew Hoskins pose the question of what can fill the place and function of human testimony, and what happens when the living memory of a generation of survivors of catastrophe ends? They address these questions via the relationship between war, peace, remembrance and forgetting, at a time of great potential – and great risk – in using AI as a technology of memory.