# In Defense of the Turing Test and its Legacy

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20699 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.20699/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 9 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Nov 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.04200/) (2022)
- [Turing's Test, a Beautiful Thought Experiment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.00009/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Considering that Turing's original test was co-opted by Weizenbaum and that six of the most common criticisms of the Turing test are unfair to both Turing's argument and the historical development of AI.