Andrew Trask: A phone would pass the Turing test if you didn't know a human was on the other end
iamtrask · x · 2026-10-04
Andrew Trask (iamtrask) argues that a phone call would pass the Turing test if you didn't know there was a person on the other end.
The point: passing the Turing test hinges heavily on the evaluator's priors — once you believe the other side is human, you charitably interpret its responses. He follows up by linking this to how AI attribution relates to questions of AI consciousness.
Related event: Ex-OpenAI researcher says phones already pass the Turing test(2 posts)→
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