The AI Memory Box project not only invites us to reflect on the nature of the human experience but also on the emotional and cultural aspects that will be lessened as AI becomes more accepted in these areas of life. The use of large language models and affective computing in the communication, memory and emotional areas of human life leads to the assumption that AI will interpret some aspects of life usually thought of as uniquely human. This project questions us to consider how AI has redefined the objects, images, and stories we cherish and what has been exposed in the territories where human meaning and machine logic diverge.

In real terms, the project is about engaging communities to share their most personal items, photographs, or short narratives that best represent the areas they fear would be affected negatively by AI—or what they would like AI to preserve. Then, LO(C)AI creates the AI-generated reinterpretations of these contributions. The public installation is formed by the pairs—one by the human and the other by the machine—and it invites people to perceive and feel the connections and differences between human memory and algorithmic reconstitution.