ABSTRACT
Given how fast artificial histories can be made, it can be tempting to think that we have no time to think about how to make histories now and in the future. Our role as humans, rather, becomes reactive as the proportion of artificial histories increases. This chapter argues otherwise. Looking to the teachings of the Australian Aboriginal Elders Uncle Lewis Yarlupurka O’Brien and Aunty Anne Martin, we are reminded that dynamic, distributed, multimaker approaches to the logic of history have a deep history. Not all cultures sat down to write histories: They produce histories from a variety of postures. Slowing down, considering the global resources we have to contribute to history making in an age of AI can generate fruitful new approaches to signalling that histories are made every moment, that they are never complete or finished, and that they are made to nourish our communities. They welcome us to see the invitation we all have to be part of AI and the future of history. That invitation started long ago.
