Abstract
In this chapter, Christoph Bareither asks how we can better understand the role of artificial intelligence in museums and critically evaluate their potential for professional museum work. He introduces an analytical concept of museum-AI assemblages: sociotechnical ensembles that constitute, stabilize, and transform the constantly changing relations between AI technologies, human beings, material objects, and real or virtual environments in the context of museums. The concept is designed to foster ethnographic and qualitative research that can provide insights into the transformations that museums are currently undergoing due to AI technologies.
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