Links of the Week: March 1, 2024: Futures and Presents, Perfect and Imperfect

Speculative fiction only works if we understand our past and present.

Links of the Week: February 16, 2024: AI Time, Time for AI?

There's a lot that museums and workers should be doing with and about AI—and most of it will be unknown until workers discover it.

Will the Challenge of AI Inspire Museums and Workers to Innovate Together? An Interview with Deb Howes

How do museums navigate the AI landscape between the rock of institutional/staff obsolescence and the hard place of private profiteering?

Is the Fall of the Museum Workplace a Matter of Time?

Is 2024 the year that museum work stops making sense, for good?

Links of the Week: January 5, 2024: Digging in the Link Pile, part 3

We finish up a three-week link dump with AI and decision-making.

Links of the Week: December 29, 2023: Digging in the Link Pile, part 2 (and finding AI)

AI was clearly the term of the year—check out some links to see how it played out.

Links of the Week: December 22, 2023: Digging in the Link Pile, part 1

There's no shortage of articles about AI, so we'll start with anything but.

Links of the Week: November 17, 2023: Everything Everywhere

After a virtual conference considered the Future of Museums, can we find common ground between civics, tech, and worker wellbeing?

Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?

A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.

Links of the Week: October 27, 2023: The Epic Ethical Issues of AI

AI is a technology and a product but also an all-consuming ethical dilemma.

Is AI the Right or Wrong Solution to the Right or Wrong Problem?

We finish up—for now—our month of AI-related post asking four big questions for museum workers.

Links of the Week: October 20, 2023: AI and Creativity

Is AI the gateway to creativity or just another corporate illusion?

The Analytics and Intuition Dilemma for Museum Workers

Data and analytics are important for museums, but intuition and genius need to be democratized, too.

Links of the Week: October 13, 2023: The Business of AI

The business world can't stop thinking about AI. That's good for the hyperati, but what about the rest of us?

The Personalization Dilemma and the AI Temptation for Museums

In aiming for personalized storytelling for every visitor, have museums created a task that only AI can possibly solve?