The fact that they weaponized a term and practice by a Black scholar— Saidiya Hartman— to justify AI, supposedly to benefit people whose history is currently being erased from archives *using* AI is rich!
Work of Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot is helpful in understanding origin of gaps.
In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
In "Silencing the Past" Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot says "silences" enter the production of history at four moments:
1) the making of sources
2) the making of archives
3) the making of narratives
4) the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)
