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When you hear the term 'AI', what best describes your first thought?

• Robots and science fiction — I'm not sure what it means in real life.
• Software that can do things like answer questions or recognize images.
• Machine learning models trained on large datasets to perform tasks.

Have you ever written a prompt to get a specific result from a tool like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?

• No, I've never used those tools.
• Yes — I type questions and see what comes back, but I don't think much about how I phrase them.
• Yes — I deliberately craft my prompts to guide the output, using techniques like role-setting or examples.

What does it mean when an AI 'hallucinates'?

• I'm not sure — maybe when it makes weird images?
• It generates text that sounds confident but is factually wrong.
• It produces plausible-sounding but fabricated outputs due to gaps in training data or misaligned objective functions.

Which of these best describes how a large language model (LLM) generates text?

• It searches the internet and copies relevant passages.
• It predicts the most likely next word (or token) based on patterns learned during training.
• It uses a knowledge graph combined with transformer attention to retrieve and reason over facts.

Thinking about AI and society, which concern are you most familiar with?

• I mostly worry about job loss — I haven't dug into other issues.
• I've thought about bias, privacy, and misinformation as well as employment impacts.
• I can discuss alignment, dual-use risk, regulatory approaches, and how to audit AI systems for fairness.