Media
Presentations, podcasts, interviews, and media appearances from our research.
Presentations
Discourse in the Age of Political Upheaval and Artificial Intelligence.
Shae Himmelberger
Live Discussion: AI and Holocaust Memory
Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova, Evgeny Kalachikhin, Atay Kozlovski, Todd Presner, Anna Bonazzi, Ulysses Pascal, Aileen Tang, Sophia Toubian, Alex Wasdahl, Yael Richler-Friedman
Generative AI
Ramesh Srinivasan, Todd Presner, Karen R. Lawrence
Press
Team led by Todd Presner receives $308,000 grant to study how AI is shaping Holocaust history
Sean Brenner, Todd Presner, Ulysses Pascal, Anna Bonazzi, Aileen Tang, Sophia Toubian
As a tool for teaching and learning history, artificial intelligence has become a double-edged sword. “AI has the potential to make historical knowledge more broadly accessible,” said Todd Presner, UCLA professor of European languages and transcultural studies. “But it also has the potential to undermine historical truths and imperil historical knowledge.” That dichotomy underpins a three-year project led by Presner through UCLA’s AI and Cultural Heritage Lab, exploring the promise and pitfalls of generative AI in sharing — and shaping — historical information about the Holocaust. Now, Presner’s lab has received a $308,000 grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), to support the project, “Prompting the Past: Generative AI and Holocaust History.” The project grew out of a collaboration with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The funds will enable research in four primary areas: understanding how AI is shaping public knowledge of the Holocaust, exploring how AI models engage with existing large-scale Holocaust archives, documenting how AI fosters Holocaust disinformation on social media, and developing a set of best practices for the use of generative AI by museums, libraries and educators.
The Algorithm as Witness: Reimagining Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age
Todd Presner
Todd Presner discusses the ethics of algorithms and Holocaust memory. Hosted by Deb Donig.
Ethics of the Algorithm
Todd Presner
Video presentation by Todd Presner on the ethics of algorithmic approaches to Holocaust memory.