Transitional Justice, Memorialisation, and Artificial Intelligence

This chapter unpacks how artificial intelligence (AI) is re-shaping the practice of transitional justice. The focal point are efforts undertaken by Holocaust museums to harness AI technology so as to re-create interactive visitor experiences through holograms of victims. This chapter notes that AI holograms offer the potential for maintaining an engagement with victims that carries through to future generations. While lauding the possibilities and potentialities AI offers for transitional justice, this chapter also identifies three risks. First, AI exacerbates the tensions involved in balancing a victim-centred approach to transitional justice with the broader societal objectives inherent in the pursuit of transitional justice. Second, AI may undermine efforts to counter denial about atrocities and may reposition and reconstitute victims. Third, AI further marginalises the already marginalised in the context of the global digital divide.