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The Three Laws of AI Governance

By Nik Honeysett

Welcome to the latest installment in CFM’s exploration of all things museums and artificial intelligence. This week the estimable Nik Honeysett proposes some simple laws to govern museums’ use of AI. To catch up with our …
Museums and AI: Critical Decisions

By Elizabeth Merritt

Welcome to CFM’s summer series on all things Artificial Intelligence. To catch up with our coverage so far, read three scenarios of potential AI futures—bright, dark, and muddling through—commentary by Nik Honeysett on how AI is changing …
Mining the National Archives: New Exhibition Sparks Personalized Discovery with AI

By Patrick Madden

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

By Nik Honeysett

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 …
AI Futures: The Cost of Doing Nothing

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
A Letter from the Frontlines of the AI-pocalypse

By Elizabeth Merritt

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?

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
AI in Museums and Community Trust: Survey Data

By Diamond Alexander

This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2025 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the survey partners with individual museums to research …
Message from the President: Decoding AI

By Marilyn Jackson

This column introduces Museum magazine’s July/August 2025 issue, a benefit of AAM membership. Do you ever get the feeling that AI came out of nowhere? When did talking, thinking robots go from a sci-fi fantasy to daily reality, and how …
Empowering Provenance Research in the Age of Big Data and (Re)Generative Artificial Intelligence

By Daniel Fonner

Six years ago, I started a project called ReMasterpieces that used some of the leading AI techniques of that time to recreate works of art that were stolen and subsequently lost or destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. My original …