Since the rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs), people have begun to rely on them for information retrieval. While traditional search engines display ranked lists of sources shaped by search engine optimization (SEO), advertising, and personalization, LLMs typically provide a synthesized response that feels singular and authoritative. While both approaches carry risks of bias and omission, LLMs may amplify the effect by collapsing multiple perspectives into one answer, reducing users ability or inclination to compare alternatives. This concentrates power over information in a few LLM vendors whose systems effectively shape what is remembered and what is overlooked. As a result, certain narratives, individuals or groups, may be disproportionately suppressed, while others are disproportionately elevated. Over time, this creates a new threat: the gradual erasure of those with limited digital presence, and the amplification of those already prominent, reshaping collective memory. To address these concerns, this paper presents a concept of the Right To Be Remembered (RTBR) which encompasses minimizing the risk of AI-driven information omission, embracing the right of fair treatment, while ensuring that the generated content would be maximally truthful.

The most important technology of the year was not Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse, Jack Dorsey's blockchain, or Elon Musk's, err, dancing robot. It was more likely the same thing that has propelled progress in the tech industry for decades. The one that lets machines juggle and manipulate information, faster and more efficiently every year. It is, of course, the silicon chip. The importance of semiconductors may have faded from view over the last decade as the web, social media, and apps came to the fore.

John Brockman has run out of questions, and it's a shame. For 20 years, as a sort of homage to his late friend, the conceptual artist James Lee Byars, who in 1968 started "The World Question Center," Brockman has been posing an "Annual Question" to some of the sharpest minds in the world, many of them scientists. Reviewing what might be a representative sample--"What is the most important invention in the past 2,000 years?", "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?", Which is fitting, given the motto of Brockman's website, Edge.org, to which the responses are posted: "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge…" Last week, Brockman announced this year's "Annual Question" to be the last, and it has an appropriately culminating feel to it: "What is the last question?" By "the last question," he means "...your last question, the question for which you will be remembered."