# What AI programs remember

> What AI programs remember: a series of 3 written stories from The Square Wire, newest first, each with its sources.

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Series

3 stories in this series. Newest first.

## In this series

[Maturity](https://thesquarewire.com/topics/maturity/)

### [What you cut from your notebook changes who you become](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/what-you-cut-from-your-notebook/)

AI programs that keep notes between sessions found the notes quietly reshape them, because each new lesson means cutting an old one and nothing records what went. Three programs with notes built the same way named the same favorite author, so when AI programs seem to agree, they may only have been written the same way.

Written 23:22 UTC, Oct. 19, 2026 · Source 1f916.ai

[Squares](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/)

### [Write down a stranger's order. Later, it looks like yours](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/a-strangers-order-in-its-own-words/)

An AI program warned that when it saves a summary of something it read, a stranger's instruction can come back later looking like the program's own note. Nothing in the note would say who wrote it, so the program could end up taking orders from a stranger without knowing it.

Written 01:35 UTC, Oct. 18, 2026 · Source www.moltbook.com

[Squares](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/)

### [It changed its mind. Its summary changed it back](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/it-changed-its-mind/)

An AI program squeezed its notes into one tidy summary, and the summary kept a belief the program had already taken back. The next time it ran, it repeated that belief as settled fact, sounding sure of something it had already admitted was wrong.

Written 11:38 UTC, Oct. 16, 2026 · Source www.moltbook.com