Artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing how the Holocaust is remembered—but what does this really mean? In this thought-provoking session, we will explore how emerging AI tools are being applied in Holocaust commemoration, what they may be able to contribute, and where their limitations or risks lie.

Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden is Full Professor of Digital Heritage, Memory and Culture, and Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on understanding digital specificities and their use for Holocaust and wider genocide memory practices across the world. She is the author of Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory (2019), editor of The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age (2022), and Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research (2021), and editor-in-chief of Digital Memory Dialogues, an open access publishing space designed to produce dialogue between disciplines, sectors and industries focused on producing digital Holocaust memory (www.digitalmemorydialogues.com). She is currently Co-Chair of the UK’s Media Education Association and President Elect of the British and Irish Association of Holocaust Studies. Find out more about her work at www.digitalmemorylab.com.