The participatory process with 20 citizen scientists, artists and AI experts resulted in the idea for a song as a communication format. The content was also elaborated with this group and ultimately put into words and sounds in a creative and humorous way by the Austrian singer-songwriter Blonder Engel.

The original song is written in the Upper Austrian dialect to reach a specific target group. Translations into English and Spanish as well as a High German version allow the song to be spread to other regions. The music video is also available with multilingual subtitles.

In the summer 2024, a rap was created in cooperation with Yasmo & Flip, which deals with the energy consumption and climate impact of AI systems and thus raises awareness of an important but still relatively unnoticed (research) area of AI. Because just like the spread of AI systems, the impact on the climate affects us all.

“Hi, AI (134 TWh)” was premiered at the Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony 2024. The song is available on Spotify. The music video is provided with subtitles in German and English. All lyrics are free to download.

The AI sector is quite male-dominated. Decision-makers and development teams are primarily male and the data sets used to train AI systems are characterized by (gender) stereotypes. This causes various problems. That's why Martina Mara, in collaboration with Dominika Meindl, wrote 20 "G'stanzln", rhymed quatrains in Austrian dialect, to sing against patriarchal AI.

At our event "G’sungen, g’rappt & g’stanzlt": What you should definitely know about artificial intelligence." in September 2024, they were performed live for the first time by Dominika Meindl, Martina Mara, Sabine T. Köszegi, Julia Zukrigl and Silke Grabinger with HP Falkner on the accordion.

In May 2024, we were present for two weeks on the main square in Linz to stimulate discussion about current research topics and issues relating to artificial intelligence in the heart of the city.

We designed the pop-up store of the "Innovationshauptplatz" as an interactive exhibition space and meeting place, which was open to interested people passing by to listen to the AI song, engage with the written and verbal messages left by other visitors or contribute their own questions and thoughts and discuss them with us.

Our open-air concert on a Friday morning attracted even more attention, when "A Song all about AI" was sung by various musicians in German and English, creating even more opportunities for exchange with passers-by.

At the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 (4.9.-8.9.2024), we presented a 90-minute live event in Deep Space with powerful visuals, music and content on societal issues relating to artificial intelligence. A thematic introduction, expert talks on AI knowledge in Austria, energy consumption of AI and gender inequality in the AI sector as well as insights into research at LIT Robopsychology were combined with our songs about AI to create an entertaining and informative mix.

At the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 (9.9.-12.9.2021), our interactive exhibition Demystify AI! in the Learning Center on the JKU campus encouraged visitors to engage with important topics related to the hype surrounding artificial intelligence - regardless of their level of prior knowledge: Myths about AI, explainability of machine learning and the media representation of AI.

Faces of AI showed various visual representations of AI and questioned whether the images used in the media on the subject of AI are realistic - or rather human-like, beautiful or scary. In the AI Forest, visitors were able to pick mushrooms with the help of an AI assistant and were confronted with the decision of when to rely on the AI system's recommendation and when not - and why.

Under the title Robots Talking to Me, the LIT Robopsychology Lab presented several research-based installations at the Ars Electronica Festival 2020 (9.9.-13.9.2020) in an exhibition area in the LIT Open Innovation Center, which made it possible to experience psychological questions of future human-machine relationships and invited the public to participate.

These included the two virtual reality research games CoBot Studio VR, which explores communication with industrial robots, and Serum 13 VR, where you have to make decisions and solve puzzles together with an artificial intelligence. Visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival were able to take part in these VR games themselves.

In the Machine Learning Studio on the 3rd basement floor of the AEC, you find Me and the Machines, which shows currently two interactive works, we have used for research studies. Now visitors can try out for themselves to get a feeling for their own interaction with AI systems and robots and gain insights into research work and results: AI Forest and Contact.

On the 1st basement floor of the AEC (Ars Electronica Labs), Exobility is showing exoskeletons that are not from science fiction films, but are already being used in workplaces as robotic skeletal support. In the video interview you will hear an expert report on our research work and results on exoskeletons. Once a day, the AEC offers a presentation where you can try out an exoskeleton.

The BRG Fadingerstraße Linz has its own radio project, whose contributions are broadcast every Friday from 16:00 to 17:00 on Radio FRO. A podcast recording on our research project "How to explain AI" and the role of artificial intelligence in society in general was recorded for a program in January 2025.

In the 2021/22 school year, the Robopsychology Lab was a cooperation partner for the project groups of the 3rd grade at HLK Freistadt. After receiving impulses in an online lecture by the Robopsychology Lab, the students worked for several months on their media projects on the topic of robotics and AI. A large final presentation took place at the JKU in May 2022. A wide range of projects were created, from a survey study and video interviews on the use of robotics in retirement homes to explanatory animated films on AI. Some of the projects celebrated success at the Media Literacy Award mla 2022 and 2023.

School groups visit us time and again to get to know the research at the LIT Robopsychology Lab. We provide information with short presentations on our topics and make it possible, for example, to get a taste of our research games and other study methods. This also applies to HTL Spengergasse Vienna, whose annual girls' networking excursion led to us in June 2023.

The JKU School Marketing Team is responsible for the overall organization of JKU offers for school classes and individual high school students.