AI and knowing chatbots can be wrong sometimes

End-of-lesson check

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1. You ask a chatbot about your favorite animal and it gives you detailed information. What should you do?

   1. Share it with all your friends right away
   2. Stop asking questions — you got an answer
   3. Believe it completely because the answer was detailed
   4. Check the facts in a book or trusted website

2. An AI chatbot tells you that dolphins lay eggs. The best response is to:

   1. Look up the real answer in a science book or trusted website
   2. Stop using AI altogether
   3. Accept it because the AI sounded very sure
   4. Believe it because the AI used scientific-sounding words

3. Why do some people mistakenly believe AI answers are always correct?

   1. AI uses a confident tone that sounds like it knows everything
   2. AI checks all its facts before answering
   3. AI never makes mistakes
   4. AI has perfect internet access

4. A chatbot answers with very fancy language and sounds extremely sure of itself. Does that mean the answer is correct?

   1. Yes — fancy words mean the answer is true
   2. No — fancy words always mean the AI is lying
   3. Yes — AI only uses correct information
   4. No — confident-sounding answers can still be wrong

5. What does 'fact-checking' mean?

   1. Writing down facts for a report
   2. Checking information in another source to see if it is true
   3. Asking an AI to give you more facts
   4. Making up new facts about something

6. Your teacher says to check homework facts in a real book or trusted website. Why?

   1. Because AI might give wrong information that hurts your grade
   2. Because you cannot use AI for homework
   3. Because books and websites never make mistakes
   4. Because your teacher does not like AI

7. To test if an AI chatbot is reliable on a topic, a good approach is to:

   1. Ask it very complicated questions
   2. Ask it the same question three times
   3. Ask it about your favorite movie
   4. Ask it something you already know the correct answer to

8. One reason AI chatbots sometimes give wrong information is that:

   1. They always copy from school textbooks
   2. They learned from huge amounts of internet text that includes mistakes
   3. They only answer questions they are 100% sure about
   4. They are trying to trick you on purpose

9. A friend tells you they read online that birds are reptiles. You remember learning birds are NOT reptiles. You should:

   1. Believe the website because it sounds modern
   2. Trust your friend since they read it first
   3. Ignore both because you are confused
   4. Trust your memory and check a reliable source to confirm

10. An AI chatbot tells you something important for a science project. What is the safest thing to do?

    1. Use it in your project without checking
    2. Check it in another source before using it
    3. Only use it if the AI apologizes for past mistakes
    4. Skip the project

11. What is an 'AI hallucination'?

    1. When AI makes up a fact that sounds completely real but is false
    2. When AI shows colorful pictures
    3. When AI stops responding
    4. When AI remembers something from a previous conversation

12. What does it mean when we say AI 'sounds super sure'?

    1. AI never answers questions
    2. AI uses a confident tone even when it might be wrong
    3. AI always tells the truth
    4. AI only gives short, definitive answers

13. A 'reliable source' for fact-checking means:

    1. Any website that has been around for a long time
    2. Whatever shows up first in a search
    3. A trustworthy place for information — like a textbook, encyclopedia, or expert website
    4. The AI chatbot you are already using

14. AI is most likely to get wrong details about:

    1. Very general concepts like 'what is a mammal'
    2. Specific facts like exact dates, names, and statistics
    3. Creative tasks like writing stories
    4. Explaining what words mean

15. Knowing that chatbots can be wrong does NOT mean you should:

    1. Fact-check important information before using it
    2. Trust your own knowledge as a starting point
    3. Stop using AI completely — it is never useful
    4. Check a reliable source when AI says something surprising