Overhead: A Conversation with Professor Adam Johnson and Artist Christopher Baker

We are not our own. While our identities are constructed from our memories, our memories extend beyond our bodies and into our environments. We offload memories to family, to friends, to journals, and ask that they help us remember and curate the important moments of our lives. But these processes have undergone a profound shift with the advent of personal electronics and social media. Do we become more artifice as we weave together our memories with the sinews and connections of artificial intelligence? Does an artificial intelligence, an inhuman process, become more human when made of human memory? How can we build AIs that will better reflect, and perhaps even, enhance our understanding of ourselves?