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Due to maintenance work the German Museum of Books and Writing will be closed from 12 to 19 January 2026.

Leipzig: 12 to 16 January 2026

Due to maintenance work the museum reading room will be closed from 12 to 14 January 2026 and the music reading room from 14 to 16 January 2026.

KI-Box

“Get inside the box to think out of the box” With these words, the German Museum of Books and Writing invites visitors to step inside the AI Box and try out a wide range of AI applications, right in the museum's foyer. The author Thomas Ramge has written that “Artificial intelligence cannot take thinking away from us”, yet it remains one of the goals of AI to automate human thought. But what happens if we actually manage to translate thought processes into machine-programmable processes? Will it be a curse or a blessing?

The Museum’s AI Box puts research findings related to the exhibition and the project into perspective within the issue as a whole, making them accessible in order to prompt wider public reflection on AI. There are many ways to play with and expand the AI Box. At present, the AI Box takes up issues from the temporary exhibition, Translation: from Babylon to DeepL, the Europe of Languages (German Museum of Books and Writing, 16 March 2021 to 29 January 2022), illuminating new perspectives on the future of translating. Visitors can get to know how machine translation works by playing with it.

Full view of the AI Box Photo: DNB, Christine Hartmann

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Full view of the AI Box

Last changes: 18.03.2021

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