WAS IST WAS: Schlau, schlauer, KI?

The book

Title

WAS IST WAS Naturwissenschaften easy! Schlau, schlauer, KI? Künstliche Intelligenz erleben

Authors

Dr. Julia Freudenberg, Matthias Feldmann

Publisher

Tessloff Verlag, Nürnberg

Published

22 September 2025

Length

64 pages

Age

11 and up

Language

German

ISBN

978-3-7886-7795-4

What it covers

What is artificial intelligence, where did it come from and how does it learn? The book answers these questions with short explanations, facts and graphics, and shows where AI already turns up in everyday life.

• From the beginnings of AI to a look at the future
• How an AI learns and who is behind it
• AI in everyday life: chatbots, voice assistants, heating control
• Opportunities and risks, set side by side
• First AI applications to try out yourself

The authors

Dr. Julia Freudenberg has led Hacker School gGmbH, a non-profit for digital education, since 2017. In 2024 she published “Hack the world a better place” (with Karen Funk). With us she is Managing Director, responsible for strategy and partnerships.

Matthias Feldmann was Vision Officer at Hacker School gGmbH and taught business intelligence, process mining and data analytics at Universität Hamburg for several years. With us he leads data analytics and solutions engineering and builds AI-supported applications.

Meet the whole team →

How the book relates to our work

Explaining AI to eleven-year-olds means boiling it down to what it actually does. Teams in non-profit organisations need the same thing: they are expected to use AI tools day to day and judge where their limits are. Since February 2025 the EU AI Act requires organisations that use AI to ensure their staff have sufficient AI literacy.

We offer workshops and training for this, from a half-day introductory workshop to organisation-wide AI guidelines.

AI consulting for non-profits →

Where to get it

From any bookshop using ISBN 978-3-7886-7795-4, or directly from Tessloff Verlag.