As arts fundraisers, what do we actually need to be paying attention to right now?

It's a great broad question, and artificial intelligence is the talk constantly about things.

And, you know, I'm glad we're talking about it, too, particularly with fundraising, but I don't want to cover it in a superficial way.

The question is no longer whether or not AI is a good idea or a bad idea.

because it's already part of our daily life.

It's part of our daily work and communications, our daily decision-making.

The real question for those of us in arts fundraising is this, as people get more used to asking for something and getting it immediately just in the general population, will that change human expectations so much that we will have to change how we fundraise? It's the kind of question that we think about, do we need to change our methodologies? Do we need to change our pace and messaging and many other things? But I think the answer is both yes and no.

So what did those past tech shifts tell us about what's ahead?