By Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell To begin, two recent stories I’ve experienced about the (non-linear, unpredictable, anything but simple) relationship between children and youth with AI in the museum context clearly illustrate the slippery ground we’re navigating in this area. Both stories converge on one point: the need for museum professionals to adopt a critical, non-simplistic, and non-deterministic approach to AI in our work. The first story is about a mother who urgently requested a meeting with the director of a science and technology museum. During their meeting, the mother unexpectedly said, “My son told us a couple of weeks ago that from now on, he would only interact with his personal chatbot companion because it’s the only one he truly trusts. What can we do? We are desperate.” […]
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