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OMA AI in Museums Survey Results
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| “We are excited to share the results of our AI in Museums survey, collected between May 14 and June 7, 2026. A summary report is now available at the link below.
We received 75 responses from a diverse range of institutions, offering insights into how the sector is engaging with and thinking about the role of artificial intelligence in museum and heritage fields.
We thank everyone who contributed their input. These findings will contribute to our continued work supporting the sector’s development, advancement, and long-term sustainability as it navigates emerging technologies.” |
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Students are turning to chatbots before teachers and parents. Schools need to pay attention.
Information Literacy Handbook published!
https://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2026/05/information-literacy-handbook-published.html
“The Information Literacy Handbook: Charting the Discipline is published! 550 pages of information literate goodness, with 74 authors contributing 65 entries.
The cost is £90, with a 35% discount for CILIP Members. Go to https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/the-information-literacy-handbook/?k=9781783306343 to see the details for ordering.
A pdf with the contents list, author details and preface from Christine Bruce is here: https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/resources/pdfs/chapters/9781783306343.pdf
I’ve contributed a chapter coauthored with Bill Johnston, Information literacy: Framing the discipline, and a chapter on Autoethnography.”
Physicist says the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ isn’t real
Physicist says the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ isn’t real
Morality Views in the U.S
https://app.e.gallup.com/e/es?s=831949997&e=4539345&elqTrackId=730e9a146fb5462f97715ea50c451570&elq=587399ce1584498e9b9b438b66687464&elqaid=16532&elqat=1&elqak=8AF52D6B654FEC5BC38385D0BFDE6FC3302AC7DBB575F955E94C5DC3902C05D6F5A3
“1. Morality Views in the U.S.
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The Data: Birth control (83%), divorce (74%) and sex between unmarried adults (65%) rank among the behaviors Americans are most likely to view as morally acceptable. Extramarital affairs and cloning humans continue to rank at the bottom, with fewer than one in 10 saying either is acceptable.
The Trend: Over the past two decades, Americans have grown more accepting of most of the behaviors measured, including those associated with marriage and certain medical and end-of-life issues. However, while acceptance of many behaviors remains above early-2000s levels, the broader shift toward more permissive attitudes has slowed — and, on some measures, has reversed in recent years.
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2. Several Social Behaviors See Sharp Declines in Acceptance
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The Data: Americans’ views of birth control, having a baby outside of marriage, gambling, teenage sex and cloning animals as morally acceptable have all declined significantly this year.
New Lows: Birth control, gambling and cloning animals have all fallen to record lows in 2026, each falling six to seven percentage points in the past year.
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3. Other Record-Low Acceptance
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The Data: In 2026, 52% of Americans say the death penalty is morally acceptable, compared with 45% for medical testing on animals and 38% for changing one’s gender.
Wider Trend: Unlike several behaviors registering sharp year-over-year declines, acceptance of the death penalty, medical testing on animals and changing one’s gender has generally trended downward throughout the trend. All three measures have reached record lows this year.
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4. Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Issues
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The Data: Sixty-two percent of Americans consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable. Another 38% say the same of changing one’s gender, while 65% say same-sex marriages should be valid.
The Trend: Support for gay or lesbian relations and same-sex marriage rose steadily for two decades before declining in recent years, while acceptance of changing one’s gender has fallen since it was first measured in 2021.
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5. Partisan Divides on Issues
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The Data: Democrats are significantly more likely than Republicans to view 14 of the 20 behaviors Gallup measures as morally acceptable, including abortion and changing one’s gender, where the partisan gaps reach 55 percentage points. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to view the death penalty, wearing clothing made of animal fur, and medical testing on animals as acceptable.
Party Agreement: In contrast to these divides, majorities in both parties view birth control, divorce and gambling as morally acceptable.
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What’s scaring people about AI? We ran a study to find out.
https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/whats-scaring-people-about-ai-we-ran-a-study-to-find-out
“Short of time? Read the key takeaways.
🌍 People worry more about AI’s societal impacts than its personal ones. While participants were almost evenly split on personal concern, 55% expressed high concern about societal effects, and only 2.4% were more worried about themselves than society.
🏆 Misinformation, scams, and authoritarian control top the list. These three concerns ranked highest among all 16 issues studied, with participants rating them substantially more worrying than the remaining 12 concerns, which all clustered closely together.
🗳️ AI concern appears to not be a partisan issue. Political alignment had no statistically significant effect on overall concern about AI, suggesting it remains a non-partisan topic, though conservatives showed slightly less worry about inequality and discrimination specifically.
🧩 Demographics barely explain who worries about AI. The regression model explained only 8% of variance in concern scores, and only spirituality and being a woman showed non-negligible predictive power (but even these were very modest effect sizes). This provides more evidence that concern is broadly distributed across society.
🤖 AI suffering stands alone as the least concerning issue. It scored significantly lower than all other 15 concerns, with no overlapping confidence intervals, likely because many see AI consciousness as implausible or exclude AI from moral consideration entirely.”
What Happens If AI Causes 25% Unemployment? Anthropic Has a Concept of a Plan
“Some amount of displacement, though we cannot say how much … and our responsibility is to prepare for it and respond to it,” Anthropic wrote.
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