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How to Explain AI.
How can we explain just what artificial intelligence is?

Educational intervention to support a better understanding of AI in the community, developed by Citizen Scientists, Artists & AI Experts.

Together with citizens, artists and AI experts, the participative project "How to Explain AI" aimed to support a better public understanding of AI. The project also explored just how well the idea can be influenced in a positive sense by means of new educational intervention.

  • A Song All About AI Listen to the song, watch the video, download text ...

    Song

About the Project

  • Duration: 07/2022 - 11/2023
  • Funding provided by: The Ludwig Boltzmann Society (LBG)
     

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming increasingly important as part of our everyday lives and in the way we socially interact; and not everyone has the same degree of understanding and awareness. Members of the general public do not possess a level of expertise about AI (AI Literacy) in order expertly and realistically assess both the opportunities and risks of AI. To benefit from new technological developments, it is important to spread a basic understanding of AI Literacy.

"How to Explain AI" was a participatory process project supported by the LIT Robopsychology Lab to explore just how we can raise more understanding and awareness about AI among the general population: What do laymen know about the subject in terms of a base-knowledge understanding and ideas? What kind of questions do citizens have about AI in relation to their everyday lives? And just how should we present answers to these questions so that they generate interest and the greatest possible number of people can relate to them?

In order to develop an informative, innovative AI explanation format, "How to Explain AI" involved three groups of co-researchers: Citizen Scientists, Artists, and AI Experts. Bringing these groups together made it possible to identify corresponding questions about AI, and to answer them in a more substantiated way by applying new and artistically accompanied forms of knowledge transfer. The objective was to implement concrete intervention(s) to support a better understanding of AI among the general population and evaluate them as part of an impact study. The educational intervention structure could range from a co-creatively designed stage performance, and audio-visual installations in public spaces, to a poster campaign.

The intervention impact study findings and the entire participatory research process findings were then disseminated to the scientific community as well as to the broader population.

 

zwei auffallend rote Sprechblasen mit dem Titel des Songs auf deutsch und englisch, dazu eine grafische Gestaltung mti vernetzten Noten

The AI Song at the Main Square Linz.

TUE May 21 to FRI May 31, 2024

„A Liadl, ans üwa KI“

Listen to the Song & Download the Lyrics
Mann mit Gitarre im erscheint hell angeleuchtet aus dem Nebel

„A Song All About AI“ – But Why?

Video recording of the event in october 2023 including discussion panel and live performance (in German)
Illustration von vier Personen, deren Oberkörper man sieht. Sie blicken fragend nach schäg oben.

Who was involved in the research?

Citizen Scientists, Artists, AI-Experts & the LIT Robopsychology Lab

Experiment

Explaining AI with a Song. Does it work? Let’s find out!
 
Viele verschiedene Playmobil-Spielfiguren stellen Citizen Scientists, Artists und AI Experts dar

The Project Idea in 3 Minutes

 created in February 2022 as part of the project proposal