Museum of Unfinished Futures: an AI clerk proposes, a human curator decides

Description and use

The Museum of Unfinished Futures uses an AI agent to draft exhibits, which a human curator reviews and publishes, enabling rapid content updates without manual editing.

Problem

Design a museum experience where visitors interact with fictional inventions and an AI‑driven content workflow, while keeping all data client‑side and ensuring human oversight of new exhibits.

Outcome

The museum now supports automated draft creation, human‑in‑the‑loop review, and zero‑cost AI credits, while visitors experience a looping narrative without data persistence.

Workflow

• 1. Curator gives the Clerk a one‑line brief and wing assignment.
• 2. Clerk drafts an exhibit with two endings and starts an Exhibit review run.
• 3. Clerk submits the draft to Sanity Studio.
• 4. Curator reviews the draft, adds notes or approves.
• 5. If revised, Clerk resubmits; otherwise Clerk cannot publish, only a human can.
• 6. Approved exhibit becomes live on the visitor site.
• 7. Visitors navigate exhibits, make choices, and print a ticket that encodes their path in the URL.

Evidence

The Clerk drafts an exhibit with two endings, starts an Exhibit review run and submits it. The curator reads it in Studio. If they send it back with a note, the Clerk reads the note, revises and resubmits.

Source

The Clerk can’t approve, put on display or publish; only a person can.

Source

The whole ticket lives in the page address (/your-future?trace=…). There are no accounts and nothing is stored.

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