AI & Law: The Turing Test

AI and the law could make use of the famous (infamous) Turing Test

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• There isn’t any AI yet today that is sentient and nor reaches the level of full human intelligence
• Nonetheless, there might someday be such vaunted AI and we’ll need to know that it exists
• Within the AI field, there is a type of famous test for this known as the Turing Test
• It makes sense to recast the Turing Test into the field of law as it relates to AI and the law
• Once there is AI-enabled autonomous legal reasoning we’ll want to validate its capabilities

Introduction

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