i got interested in the intersection of artificial intelligence and a memory. How we can outsource remembering and basically write down more critical information in an evidence based way. A couple o years ago, i confounded a spot. So talked to spot dot com, which is a chap bot that helps you record and report harassment and discrimination at work. But ultimately i think that it could be seen as a bit of a templet for evidence base interviewing in a scalable way. And so with a bot, in some way, it gets around some of the stereotypes that we ourselves might introduce to situation or the reluctance of a witness to tell certain parts of a story. For me, this is the future of
Our guest on this episode is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion.
Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.
From her book’s website: “In The Memory Illusion, Dr Julia Shaw uses the latest research to show the astonishing variety of ways in which our memory can indeed be led astray. Fascinating and unnerving in equal measure, the international bestseller The Memory Illusion has been translated into 20 languages and offers a unique insight into the human brain, challenging you to question how much you can ever truly know about yourself.”
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