There’s a quiet assumption baked into most conversations about AI and memory: that preservation is always good. More data. More recall. More continuity. But philosophy warned us about this long before large language models. In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida describes how every archive doesn’t just store the past — it decides what will count as meaningful, and in doing so quietly governs the future. AI intensifies this condition. What began as a desire to remember becomes an automated drive to...

There’s a quiet assumption baked into most conversations about AI and memory: that preservation is always good. More data. More recall. More continuity. But philosophy warned us about this long before large language models. In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida describes how every archive doesn’t just store the past — it decides what will count as meaningful, and in doing so quietly governs the future. AI intensifies this condition. What began as a desire to remember becomes an automated drive to...