GenAI Arcade: Explore, Play and Understand AI
Target Audience: General public, All ages
The GenAI Arcade is an interactive learning platform that helps people understand how generative AI works through hands-on games and activities. Designed for non-experts, it offers an accessible, balanced view of AI's capabilities, limitations and broader impacts, without relying on technical jargon or hype.
PURPOSE
The GenAI Arcade was built as a research-informed response to a gap in how people understand and learn about generative AI. It was created to:
- Move AI literacy beyond passive explanation (e.g. articles or lectures) toward hands-on, experiential learning, where people understand AI by interacting with it directly
- Reveal how AI systems actually behave in practice, including their limitations, inconsistencies, and dependence on contex, things that are often hidden by polished interfaces
- Challenge dominant “framings” of AI coming from both big tech (over-simplified or promotional narratives) and public discourse (either overly technical or overly apocalyptic)
- Support “situated capabilities” understanding, meaning that AI isn’t treated as having fixed abilities, but as something whose outputs change depending on prompts, design, and social context
- Promote critical AI literacy, grounded in experimentation, where users can test assumptions and develop a more realistic understanding of what generative AI can and cannot do.
This research is part of the Generative Authenticity project. This tool was created by QUT’s GenAI Lab. If you want to learn more about the GenAI Arcade or the QUT GenAI Lab, contact genailab@qut.edu.au
Recommended Citation: Witzenberger, K., Burgess, J., He, W., & Snoswell, A. (2025). GenAI Arcade. QUT GenAI Lab. http://genai-arcade.net
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Witzenberger, K., Burgess, J., He, W., & Snoswell, A. (2025). Building Situated Capabilities: An Introduction to the GenAI Arcade. SSRN