As survivor generation dwindles, Holocaust memory faces new test in age of AI

As the number of living Holocaust survivors continues to decline, Jewish leaders, scholars and technology experts gathered in Jerusalem last week to examine one of the defining questions facing Holocaust remembrance: how to preserve historical truth in an age of artificial intelligence, digital media and rising Holocaust denial. The event, organized by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, known as the Claims Conference, was held under the theme "The Day After the Survivors: Between Denial, Technology and Historical Truth." Speakers focused on the approaching transition to an era in which no living witnesses to Nazi atrocities will remain, at a time of rising antisemitism, Holocaust denial and rapid advances in artificial intelligence. "The boundary between documentation, reconstruction and synthetic creation is blurring," said Dr. Tehilla Schwartz Altshuler, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.