“A song all about AI”: a musical exhibition booth to foster artificial intelligence literacy

In a participatory project to improve general artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, we worked with citizen scientists, artists and AI experts to collect pressing questions about AI and to answer them creatively. The result, created in collaboration with the singer-songwriter “Blonder Engel”, was “A song all about AI”, written in Upper Austrian dialect in order to reach a target group that differs completely from that of English-language specialist publications on AI. To add interactive elements and to address a wider audience, we used the song and its music video as a starting point for developing a participatory exhibition booth that debuted at the ECSA 2024 Citizen Science Day. Results gathered at its first outing show that it is a successful means both of interactive, art-based science communication and of collecting data on a diverse audience’s AI awareness.