How much do you know about digital topics?
How much do you know about digital topics?
With technology all around us it’s easy to spend all day online, but how much do you really know about the cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and tech companies you interact with?
Test your knowledge of digital topics and terms by taking our nine-question quiz. When you finish, you will be able to compare your score with knowledge measured among the American public. Our nationally representative survey of 5,101 randomly selected U.S. adults was conducted between May 15 and 21, 2023, using Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel. The analysis of the findings from the survey can be found in the full report, “What Americans Know About AI, Cybersecurity and Big Tech.”
Question 1 of 9
As of April 2023, which of the following companies did Elon Musk run?
Tesla and Twitter
Uber and Snapchat
Twitter and Uber
Snapchat and Tesla
Not sure
Question 2 of 9
If a website uses cookies, it means that the site can…
Protect your computer from getting viruses
Send you pop-up advertisements
Look at files saved on your computer
Track your visits and activity on the site
Not sure
Question 3 of 9
What is a “deepfake”?
A seemingly real, computer-generated image, video or audio of something that did not occur
A text-based chatbot that tricks people into thinking that they are talking to another person
A system that records and protects information online
A program that makes it look like people are using the internet from a different location
Not sure
Question 4 of 9
In 2021, Facebook changed its company name to…
Meta
Alphabet
Cisco
Horizon
Not sure
Question 5 of 9
Which of the following passwords is the most secure?
SportsFan1983
WTh!58iLf2?9zD
abc12.6.48
1234567890
Not sure
Question 6 of 9
How do large language models, such as ChatGPT, come up with answers to questions users submit?
Randomly generate sentences that reorganize and reuse keywords found in the submitted question
Search the internet and summarize what the top results say on that topic
Create a response based on word patterns and relationships it previously learned from text pulled from the internet
Use a pre-written response that plugs in keywords from the question without any understanding of what was being asked
Not sure
Question 7 of 9
Some websites and online services use a security process known as two-step or two-factor authentication. Which of the following images is an example of two-factor authentication?
A
B
C
D
Not sure
Question 8 of 9
Websites in the United States are prohibited from collecting data online from children under what age without a parent’s consent?
5
10
13
16
18
Not sure
Question 9 of 9
Does the United States have a national privacy law that sets common standards for what companies can do with all data their products and services collect?
Yes, it does
No, it does not
Not sure
Below you’ll find how your answers compare with the 5,101 U.S. adults who took part in our national survey. For more findings from the survey, read “What Americans Know About AI, Cybersecurity and Big Tech.”
You answered questions correctly
You scored better than of the public, below of the public and the same as .
These percentages only reflect the 5,101 adults who took part in the national survey; online quiz results are not included in the sample. The percentage of the public you scored better and worse than are based on adding the rounded values shown above.
Median number of questions answered correctly by Americans
Median number of questions answered correctly by demographic break
Gender
Age
Education
You answered out of 9 questions correctly.
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