Can you fool the AI? Investigating people’s attitude towards AI with a smart photo booth

With the increasing impact of AI in people's everyday lives, multidisciplinary research on the public perception and understanding of AI is more important than ever. Yet, such research is still scarce. In this paper, we present a novel and playful setup for evaluating the impact of actual Human-AI-Interaction on people’s attitudes towards AI. The proposed setup takes the form of an intelligent photo booth capable of identifying humans. We present a first pilot study, illustrating how this AI system could be used in research. During this pilot, visitors of a film festival were challenged to fool the AI and take a selfie on which the intelligent photo booth would not identify them as a human being. Participants' attitudes towards AI were measured before and after the interaction. Based on exploratory observations, we conclude that multidisciplinary research into AI attitude, Human-AI Interaction and AI literacy is a promising research direction.