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Mining the National Archives: New Exhibition Sparks Personalized Discovery with AI
CFM’s summer dive into artificial intelligence has included scenarios of potential futures, and commentary from the field. The series will also profile examples of “killer applications”—ways in which AI can help museums do things that … -
The Four Illusions of AI: Implications for Museum Practice
I introduced our exploration of artificial intelligence with three stories of potential futures, laying the groundwork for a broader exploration of how museums might navigate this swiftly changing landscape. Today Nik Honeysett, Chief … -
How Museums Can Resist Censorship
As the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) points out, “every generation of Americans faces new and significant challenges to free expression.” The White House’s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian can be seen as part of a … -
AI Futures: The Cost of Doing Nothing
This is the third entry in CFM’s summer series on the perils and promise of artificial intelligence. Having bounced from one side of the Cone of Plausibility—an optimistic future—to the other—an AI dystopia—today we are going to explore a … -
How to respond to new threats to nonprofits
Last week, I learned that the IRS is planning to propose regulations that would give it the power to strip nonprofit status from organizations for noncompliance with the administration’s anti-DEAI positions. (You can read the story for … -
A Letter from the Frontlines of the AI-pocalypse
This is the second in a series of posts I hope will help readers navigate the perils and promise of AI. In part one, I put on my happy hat and tried to imagine the best plausible future shaped by artificial intelligence. Now let’s veer to … -
Forecasting the AI Future: What’s the Best that Could Happen?
A sampling of recent pronouncements in the news: How can we possibly make sense of these conflicting predictions? Given this range of possible outcomes, how can you, and your museum, navigate the promise and perils of artificial … -
A Future of “Uniform Guidance”
Foresight…Insight…Action That’s the framework the Institute for the Future uses to navigate uncertainty with concrete, tactical action. Last week’s museum foresight: flagging the Office of Management and Budget’s new proposed funding … -
A Foresight Take on Proposed Government Funding Regulations
Two weeks ago, we took one (more) step towards a future in which the risks of government funding might outweigh the benefits. On May 29, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a new proposed rule for the Regulation for Federal … -
Actionable foresight: making sense of the news
Artificial intelligence…grant disruptions…unionization…tourism…birthrates…new legislation…philanthropy …climate change…social media…hantavirus… How can you make sense of the hundreds of stories vying for your attention in your digital and …
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