Touching Artifacts with gloves does not activate them.

[Doop]

personally I think the chance of some random person touching an artifact and dying or causing some sort of emergency is very funny. like, the fun of it to me is that it ISN'T safe and there isn't a really good way to protect yourself unless you're in the artifact lab. I do think the lag spike thing and touching an artifact when you don't actually want to can be a problem but I don't know if I like having ways to mitigate against accidental activations completely.