‘Why AI must learn to forget – Machines with perfect memory would be dangerous’ – new blog article by LSE Philosophy Assistant Professor Ali Boyle

We think of our tendency to forget as a cognitive defect. When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, we could eradicate this human limitation by creating machines with infallible memories. But forgetting is in fact crucial both for smoothing out social interactions, and for the proper functioning of our memories. The same would be true of AI. Machine intelligence that never forgot would be both socially dangerous and cognitively inefficient, argues Ali Boyle.

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