When AI Forgets You: How Memory Loss Costs All of Us

Remember the frustration and exasperation of losing all the work you had just poured into a word processor, only to realize you hadn't saved it and now found all that hard work lost for eternity, just a decade ago? While it may not be as visceral or complete an erasure, the exact same thing happens to many of us daily when we engage with AI platforms that reset between sessions, losing everything we built together - context, nuance, the accumulated shorthand of a working relationship.