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title: "Turing Test Considered Harmful"
authors:
  - "Patrick J. Hayes"
  - "Kenneth M. Ford"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/126"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0126.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "972-976"
track: "Invited Speakers"
keywords:
---

# Turing Test Considered Harmful

Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 972-976.

## Abstract

Passing the Turing Test is not a sensible goal for Artificial Intelligence. Adherence to Turing's vision from 1950 is now actively harmful to our field. We review problems with Turing's idea, and suggest that, ironically, the very cognitive science that he tried to create must reject his research goal.