After working together on our previous participatory theatrical work, Smoked Out, Carl and I began discussing what we wanted to work on next. We kept coming back to the idea of identity and how external factors influence a person's identity. As an immigrant to this country, I kept thinking about how you are forced to conform to a strict American identity when you move to the United States. After many discussions, we started working on a multi-disciplinary project focused on a connected series of issues: the role of the US Citizenship test, bias in its implementation, and the role of data collection and surveillance in connection to these systems. By highlighting these connections, we hope to help reveal how modern citizenship is grounded in an increasing erosion of privacy that can only hurt those already marginalized the most. Our practice is grounded in both active participation and theater, and thus our current artistic expression related to these issues is in the form of a theatrical script. “The Test” is a two-actor play that follows Applicant, a resident of the US preparing for their citizenship test. Due to the isolation common in our post-lockdown world, they do not have the support network that they would like to study for the test, and so turn to ChatGPT to help them study. As they work with the chatbot to prepare, the audience is also asked to take the citizenship test during the performance, which ultimately are compared with the Applicant's notes. The Applicant then begins the exam itself, which is proctored by a Federally owned AI which, unbeknownst to the Applicant, is constantly comparing their answers to their larger body of governmental data and online presence. They, perhaps miraculously, pass the exam, and the show concludes with the audience being asked what they believe the purpose of the Exam should be and then are forced to contend with whether they believe it is serving that role before ultimately swearing the Oath of Naturalization to the United States and opening an audience forum on these difficult questions and what answers might look like.