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Interactive tools from Katherine Ognyanova’s research: the CHIP50 Trust Tracker on trust in institutions, and State of the Prompt on what people ask AI.

Interactive tools from my projects.

CHIP50 Trust Tracker: how much Americans trust institutions and public figures, 2020 to today
88%trust hospitals and doctors, the most trusted
33%trust Elon Musk, the least trusted
69 ptsparty gap on Donald Trump, the widest
CHIP50 · Civic Health and Institutions Project

Trust Tracker

How much do Americans trust hospitals, scientists, the police, Congress, the news media, AI companies, and the people who run the country? The Trust Tracker follows 26 institutions and public figures across national surveys since 2020, and breaks the answers down by party, age, race, education, income, and state.

Who do Americans trust?

Share who trust each institution or public figure a lot or some, in the three latest surveys. Pick a group to see how the ranking changes.

State of the Prompt: a year of what people ask AI
3.4Mconversations analyzed, July 2025 to June 2026
10.2%are mainly about health, the biggest subject
0.22%of political conversations ask for evidence
Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab

State of the Prompt

What do people actually ask AI? An opt-in panel of 73,852 people in the United States shared a year of their ChatGPT conversations with researchers. State of the Prompt reports what they asked, who asked it, and when, without ever showing a conversation.

What people bring to ChatGPT

Each square is one in every hundred conversations, colored by the category of its main subject. Choose a category to see what it holds.

Ask the data

Ask a question in plain words about a subject, a group of people, or a time of day. The answer opens on State of the Prompt, written from published totals.