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AI in Museums. Reflections, Perspectives and Applications
Sonja Thiel / Johannes C. Bernhardt (Eds.)
Bringing together critical perspectives, practical insights, and real-world examples, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how artificial intelligence is reshaping museum practice, from collections management and research to visitor experiences, interpretation, and creative production.

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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities
Luciano Floridi
This book examines the evolution, ethics, risks, and societal implications of artificial intelligence, arguing that AI represents a novel separation of intelligence from agency and exploring how this new form of agency can be governed and applied to promote human wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and social good.

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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
Matteo Pasquinelli
This book offers a social history of artificial intelligence, arguing that AI originates not in attempts to replicate human intelligence but in the automation of labour, social organisation, and surveillance, and calls for a critical understanding of AI as a technology shaped by economic and social relations rather than autonomous intelligence.

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Thinking Back, Making Forward: Artistic Research in Practice
Editors: Brad Haylock, Jessica Wilkinson, Charles Anderson
This edited volume explores how PhD research is reshaping creative disciplines, bringing together artists’ reflections on the benefits, challenges, and broader significance of integrating research into artistic practice and examining its impact on creative work, thinking, and professional development.

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Hard Fork
Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the rapidly changing world of tech.

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Making the Museum
A podcast on exhibition planning for museum leaders, exhibition teams and visitor experience professionals.

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Practical AI
Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more).

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People. Change. Museums.
This 2020 podcast series explores how museums, technology, and overlapping social crises intersect, bringing together international museum professionals to discuss the role of museums in shaping human values and advancing cultural understanding and social justice in a time of uncertainty and change.

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AI Talk (in German and English)
AI Talk is the podcast for anyone who wants to shape Artificial Intelligence — not just follow it. Host Stephan Lendi speaks with top Swiss voices from technology, business, science, and policy to explore how AI is transforming our world. Together with co-host Dalith Steiger-Gablinger of SwissCognitive, AI Talk delivers sharp perspectives and meaningful dialogue for a global innovation audience.

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Nerdland podcast (in Dutch)
Nerdland is the universe in which Lieven Scheire and Hetty Helsmoortel take everyone on a journey to the most fascinating corners of science: through their podcast, books, live shows and, since 2022, the Nerdland Festival too!

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KI verstehen (in German)
Artificial intelligence is revolutionising our everyday lives. It translates texts, filters news, analyses X-rays, and helps determine who gets a job. In the podcast Understanding AI by Deutschlandfunk, questions are answered every week about how to understand, use, and navigate artificial intelligence.

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Non toccare (in Italian)
With a focus on accessibility, the podcast ("Don’t Touch") by Scuola nazionale del patrimonio e delle attività culturali touches, stirs, and reshapes ideas about cultural sites.

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AI in Museums and Community Trust: A 2025 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story 
This visual Data Story, published by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), is based on findings from the 2025 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of US museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the survey partners with individual museums to research their audiences and yield insights about their behaviors and preferences, both on an institutional and national level.

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Global Center on AI Governance & "Global Index on Responsible AI"
Africa's leading voice in AI policy and governance, working globally to shape fair and inclusive technologies. Their "Global Index on Responsible AI" is built by a global network of 130+ researchers, the Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI) provides evidence-based insights into how countries are shaping AI governance, protecting human rights and advancing responsible innovation.

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The true cost of AI romance:  A 4.5-fold increase in emissions in one year
Article by Greenpeace on AI and sustainability or rather the associated carbon emissions

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Fireship
Code tutorials and tech news to help you ship your app faster. New videos every week covering the topics every programmer should know.

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Videos by Andrej Karpathy
Videos on LLMs and AI by the former co-founder of OpenAI, later Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team of the Autopilot, then OpenAI again, now Anthropic

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Advancing Digital Transformation in Museums 
The MCN Conference recordings invite viewers to relive talks from previous events.

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MagnificentH
MagnificentH provides infrastructure and community formats that turn audiences into co-curators, giving them access to trusted, connected image archives and the tools to build micro-museums with provenance and attribution. Museums can connect and build using IIIF for storytelling that drives higher audience engagement, community participation, and better discovery. The result: static images or underutilized archives become a living, co-created cultural record — without the cost and complexity of building IIIF infrastructure alone, and with the built-in reach of a shared, growing network.

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Anne's Substack
Blog by Anne James, one category is Analysis of AI governance, policy, and deployment in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. I'll break down current policy across the EU, US and Canada, and how cultural institutions should be engaging with AI.

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Dr Oonagh Murphy
Dr Oonagh Murphy's website with resources, posts etc. on the cultural sector and AI (with a focous on GB)

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Ville Tikka
A strategist working across frontier technology, culture, and business. Using social sciences, market intelligence, and design inquiry to rethink what value is and where it comes from.

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The AI Art Magazine
An online magazine with resource on AI and generative art.

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t3n (in German)
German online magazine on digital applications, not limited on AI.

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Elements of AI
Creators MinnaLearn and the University of Helsinki want to encourage as broad a group of people as possible to learn what AI is, what can (and can’t) be done with AI, and how to start creating AI methods. The courses combine theory with practical exercises and can be completed at your own pace. Several European language options are available. 

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KI-Campus (in German)
German website with free courses on AI.

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Khronos KI-skole (in Norwegian)
"Online School" for Academics to learn how to use, apply and deal with AI.

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AI4LAM - Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives & Museums
AI4LAM is an international, participatory community focused on advancing the use of artificial intelligence in, for and by libraries, archives and museums.

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Hugging Face
The AI community building the future - A platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications.

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Česká asociace umělé inteligence (in Czech)
This nationwide organisation is supporting the development of AI in the Czech Republic. They meaningfully engage the private, public, academic, and nonprofit sectors in opportunities and changes aimed at building a better future for our country.

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AI in the Service of Cultural Heritage
In a joint project between the National Gallery and the Finnish Heritage Agency, AI tools based on image recognition and new working methods are being developed and implemented to improve the accessibility and usability of information related to cultural heritage. 

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The European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
The Cultural Heritage Cloud or European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) is a European Union initiative to create a shared digital infrastructure that connects cultural heritage institutions and professionals across the EU. It will provide specific digital collaboration tools for the sector while removing barriers for smaller and more remote institutions. The ECCCH ecosystem brings together a wide range of interconnected projects and initiatives contributing to the development of the Cultural Heritage Cloud. At the centre of the ecosystem is ECHOES, which is responsible for building the foundations and core infrastructure of the Cloud.

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