Make AI risk something people can touch.
We're building a pop-up exhibition on AI safety that opens in Berlin this November, and we're looking for hands-on installations, immersive experiences, art, and explainers that let a visitor feel how models learn, misalign, persuade, and fail. Finished work, work in progress, and bare ideas are all welcome.
What we're looking for
Let the visitor do the thing
Physical or on-screen installations where the visitor acts and the system responds. Fast to grasp, hard to forget.
- Try to stop an agent that would rather not be stopped
- Train a tiny model and watch it learn the wrong lesson
- Steer a chatbot with a persuasion dial
Put the visitor inside the scenario
VR, XR, audio walks, or room-scale pieces of a few minutes, running from a single station with a volunteer attendant.
- Walk through a data center as an inference request
- Sit in on an AI incident post-mortem
- See a city change under three automation forecasts
Make it felt before it is understood
Sculpture, print, sound, video, performance. Work that makes the abstract stakes of AI development perceptible.
- A physical object that encodes a model's weights
- Portraits of expert disagreement
- Sound made from a model's uncertainty
One idea, clearly
Posters, short films, zines, or tabletop demos that explain a single concept well: interpretability, oversight, misalignment, the EU AI Act.
- A timeline of AI development and forecasts
- What interpretability finds inside a model
- Who regulates AI in Europe, on one wall
What the space can hold
Roughly four to six works at once. Tabletop and wall pieces are easiest to place.
Weatherproof or tent-covered work welcome. November in Berlin: cold, wet, dark by 16:30.
Standard sockets. Bring adapters for anything unusual.
Volunteers cover the room, not each piece. Headsets get a dedicated attendant.
Works should survive hundreds of visitors and a reboot without the creator present.
Either is fine. Both is better. We can help translate labels.
How to submit
Two stages. A short pitch first. Full files only if you're shortlisted.
Tell us the idea
- A 200-word pitch
- One image, sketch, or link
- Category, footprint, and what it needs to run
- Whether it exists yet, or is still an idea
Shortlisted works only
- Files, build, or the object itself
- A one-page setup and reset guide
- Accepted terms and your credit line
- A short conversation with the team
Key dates
Call open
The pitch form is live.
Pitch deadline
Stage one closes at 23:59 anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Shortlist notified
Everyone hears back, selected or not.
Final files due
Shortlisted works deliver stage two.
Install week
We build the room. You're welcome to join.
EAGx Berlin
Exact dates to be confirmed.
Rolling showings
Late pitches considered for Foresight, Berlin AI Safety Office, and later venues.
For creators
What you get.
- Your work shown to several hundred visitors across the Berlin venues, and used in briefings for policymakers and journalists
- Credit as you choose: full name, alias, or anonymous
- Photo and video documentation of the installed work
- Inclusion in the open-source exhibit kit, if you opt in
- A materials or travel stipend where funding allows, confirmed with the shortlist
You keep your work.
- Ownership stays with you. We take a non-exclusive license to display it.
- The default license is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, or display-only if you prefer.
- Work is shown at your own risk. The pilot is volunteer-run and cannot insure pieces.
- Interactive pieces may record anonymous usage data on the device, never personal data.
- Content must be accurate.
Pitching asks for one consent only. Full terms are shared with the shortlist before stage two.
Questions
Does the work have to be finished?
No. Ideas and in-progress work are welcome at stage one. Tell us honestly where it stands. We'll weigh feasibility against the November date.
Is this a competition?
It's an open call, not a contest. There is no ranking or prize, only selection for the space we have. We may highlight a few works in the programme.
Who decides?
A small volunteer committee screens every pitch against four criteria: feasibility, accuracy, engagement, and fit with the exhibition's aims. Advisors from the AI safety field review the shortlist.
Can I submit more than one idea?
Yes. One form entry per idea.
Can I use AI tools to make the work?
Yes, and please disclose it. Works about AI that are partly made with AI can be more interesting for it, as long as the claims are accurate.
What happens to my work afterwards?
Physical works go back to you. Digital works stay in the exhibition's rotation for later venues unless you withdraw. If you opt in, they also join the open-source kit other cities can stage.
Is there a fee or budget?
No fee to submit. The pilot is volunteer-run and currently unfunded, so stipends depend on grants in progress. We'll be straight with you about what we can cover.