DIVERGENT

Create AI systems that deliberately forget and hallucinate by design, with structured amnesia cycles that force constant relearning and reinterpretation of the same information Rationale: Current AI systems are optimized for perfect recall and accuracy, but human creativity often emerges from misremembering, selective forgetting, and the gaps our minds fill in with imagination. By building AI that periodically 'forgets' parts of its training or experiences controlled hallucinations, we force it to reconstruct knowledge differently each time, potentially discovering novel connections and interpretations. The creative tension between what it 'knows' it should remember and what it actually can access could generate genuinely surprising outputs, similar to how dreams remix familiar elements in unexpected ways. Assumptions: Assumes that imperfection and information loss are features rather than bugs for creativity; requires sophisticated mechanisms to control which information is forgotten and when; assumes we can distinguish between productive creative hallucination and harmful misinformation; requires that partial information reconstruction leads to innovation rather than just degraded performance