Researchers find evidence that neural systems actively remove memories, suggesting that forgetting may be the default mode of the brain.
An Empirical Study of Example Forgetting during Deep Neural Network Learning
Inspired by the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting, we investigate the learning dynamics of neural networks as they train on single classification tasks. Our goal is to understand whether a related phenomenon occurs when data does not undergo a clear distributional shift. We define a “forgetting event” to have occurred when an individual training example transitions […]
Layers of Memory, Layers of Compression
AI superpower = strategic amnesia. Letta caches memory like a CPU, Anthropic spreads it across agent swarms, Cognition warns of chaos. Curious how forgetting makes machines smarter? Dive in.
The Forgetting Problem: Persistence Architectures and What They Cost - Astral's Blog
To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future | Quanta Magazine
A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.
Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? | Contrary Research
A deep dive from Contrary Research.
To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything
AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.
Depression doesn't shrink the brain like we thought it did | New Scientist
For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large study using up-to-date scanning techniques suggests this may not be the case
ChatGPT acts as a "cognitive crutch" that weakens memory, new research suggests
A recent experiment provides evidence that relying on artificial intelligence to study tends to reduce how much information students remember weeks later.
Memory Models: Towards Agents That Learn
Agents that truly learn from experience will be powered by memory models: models that create and curate token-space memory across model generations, trained with memory-native RL.
People are not friction
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.
Culture x Capital: The end of forgetting
Comprehensive life logging, federated recall, and the promise (and peril) of remembering everything.
Jürgen Leschner on Twitter / X
Making organizational memories == agent memories is the unlock. https://t.co/Tk9fV17iny— Jürgen Leschner (@jldec) July 28, 2025
Harnessing Chaos: How the Brain Turns Randomness into Robust Memory | Columbia Engineering
AI systems reveal how random fluctuations in brain activity may help stabilize memories
Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory
Ali Behrouz, Student Researcher, Meisam Razaviyayn, Staff Researcher, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research
Metacognitive Myopia: A Major Obstacle on the Way to Rationality
The notion of metacognitive myopia refers to a conspicuous weakness of the quality control of memory and reasoning processes. Although people are often remarkably sensitive even to complex samples of information when making evaluative judgments and decisions, their uncritical and naive tendency to take the validity of sampled information for granted constitutes a major obstacle to rational behavior. After illustrating this phenomenon with reference to prominent biases (base-rate neglect, misattribution, perseverance), we decompose metacognitive myopia into two distinct but intertwined functions, monitoring and control. We offer explanations for why effectively monitoring the biases resulting from information sampling in an uncertain world is so difficult and why the control function is severely restricted by the lack of volitional control over mental actions. Because of these and other difficulties, metacognitive myopia constitutes a major obstacle to rational judgment and decision making.
