{"id":246313,"date":"2026-11-01T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/ais-fail-to-reliably-detect-ais-in-reverse-turing-tests"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:16:17","slug":"ais-fail-to-reliably-detect-ais-in-reverse-turing-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/ais-fail-to-reliably-detect-ais-in-reverse-turing-tests","title":{"rendered":"AIs fail to reliably detect AIs in reverse Turing tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The famous \u201cTuring test\u201d of computer science comes from a 1950 paper written by the British computer scientist (and war hero) Alan Turing. There are many variants, but perhaps the most common involves a human asking questions of \u201csomeone\u201d behind a screen. The test is: Can the human consistently determine if the answerer is a human or a machine?<\/p>\n<p>A new paper reverses this situation and asks: Can a large language model (LLM) ask questions that reveal if the hidden respondent is a human or another LLM? The work, by four French scientists from the Unit of Artificial Intelligence of PITOR at Paris Cit\u00e9 University, is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2451958826003775\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Computers in Human Behavior Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous \u201cTuring test\u201d of computer science comes from a 1950 paper written by the British computer scientist (and war hero) Alan Turing. There are many variants, but perhaps the most common involves a human asking questions of \u201csomeone\u201d behind a screen. The test is: Can the human consistently determine if the answerer is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}