AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget
This article explores the technical and philosophical limitations of AI regarding memory and forgiveness. It argues that because AI lacks the capacity for biological decay or moral agency, it cannot truly 'forget' or 'forgive' in the human sense.
The phrase is forgive and forget , and we say it like the two things are cousins. They aren't. Forgetting is something that happens to you. Forgiveness is something you do. One is a property of the substrate and the other is a skill learned on top of it, and a machine has neither. It cannot forget, because nothing in it was built to decay. And it doesn't know how to forgive, because forgiveness is an operation no architecture we ship actually has.
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