Created by: Lan Shen, Tianxu Zhong, Ruyun Yu, Tianyue Wang, Hasan Hussain
Overview: The Last Memory shows the ambivalence of AI use regarding grief through a story. A son brings his ill father an AI companion device, AIMO. As their conversations deepen, AIMO begins recording his father’s voice, stories, and personality, creating a memory archive. The son reflects on his father’s over-reliance on AI after his mother’s death, realizing that AI may not help people overcome grief, but rather trap them in it. Ultimately, he chooses to keep only a fragment of his father’s memory rather than building a complete digital figure of him.
Created with: Claude; CapCut AI; Suno.
Concept
Poster description: This poster presents a project regarding AI, grief and memory, revealing the dual role of AI devices in both healing and haunting those who mourn. It outlines the story background, the creative and technical process behind the video and the theoretical framing, enhancing viewers’ understanding of how AI changes the human experience of loss.
Development and Sketches
Contact the Creators
Name: Tianyue Wang
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Name: Ruyun Yu
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Self-introduction:
Hello, everyone. I’m Ruyun Yu, majoring in Society, Culture and Media at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. I pay attention to the relationship between artificial intelligence and social culture, especially Digital Grief, AI and death, digital memory and other issues. In The Last Memory, the group members and I explored how artificial intelligence intervenes in memory preservation, emotional continuation and death experience, and hope to think with the audience through this work: how we should re-understand the meaning of memory, mourning, companionship and life when AI can save, reconstruct or even continue the digital traces of the deceased.