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Ifrah Khalil Kawa* explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the preservation and transmission of Tibetan cultural memory across generations in exile, while also reflecting on the ethical questions surrounding digital archives, cultural stewardship, and community ownership of memory.
In the Sonamling Tibetan Settlement outside Leh in Ladakh, I found that the most venerable memories were not to be had in any museum or archive. They were to be found in conversation. My fieldwork there put me in the company of elderly Tibetan refugees who would talk of the monasteries from their youth, the villages they put behind them and the Himalayan crossings that altered the course of their lives. Younger memb...
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