About whether the Turing test needs basic agency, after OpenAI's reasoning model release.
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About whether the Turing test needs basic agency, after OpenAI's reasoning model release.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Extremely basic agency would be required to pass the Turing test as intended.
Like, the ability to ask a new unrelated question without being prompted. Of course you can fake this, but then you're not testing the LLM as an AI, you're testing a dumb system you rigged up to create the appearance of an AI.