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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 …
Survey on AI in Museums and Community Trust

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 …
Chatting About Museums with ChatGPT

By Elizabeth Merritt

Two months ago, the research and development lab OpenAI released ChatGPT, an interactive “chatbot” powered by artificial intelligence. Chatbots aren’t new (I’ve been writing about museums and chatbots for at least five years now, and …
Artificial Intelligence in Service of Understanding and Delight

By Dr. Hank Hine

I continue to be amazed and delighted at the ways in which museums are harnessing artificial intelligence to power their work. This week Dr. Hank Hine, Executive and Creative Director of The Dali Museum, tells us how The Dali has used AI …