La proyecci´on antropoc´entrica del Test de Turing en la cultura de la IA
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https://doi.org/10.22370/sst.2025.10.4891Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Anthropocentric bias, Human culture, Human-computer interaction, Collective imaginariesAbstract
The Turing Test continues to play an important philosophical role (Moor 2001), especially in research and reflections on the ability of artificial intelligence to deceive people into believing it is human. These explorations can significantly impact narratives and/or collective imaginations, that is, the scientific culture surrounding AI. In fact, the possibility of AI systems passing the Turing Test often arouses fear, but also deep fascination: the dream of artificial consciousness and the nightmare of robot rebellion has been present in much of science fiction, but also in journalistic reports and public debates (Natale 2021). Thus, the question that will guide the essay project arises: In what sense has the Turing Test a↵ected the culture surrounding AI?
This essay aims to show that the Turing Test contains the idea that AI resides not only in programming techniques, but also in the ways in which humans perceive and interact with the computer. The first section presents Simone Natale’s (2021) argument around the thesis that the Turing Test defines AI in terms of the perspective of humans, in their interactions with computers, giving a prominent place to communication. The second section delves into the impact of the Turing Test –and its anthropocentric bias– in the sociocultural context, also considering the perspective of Benjamin Bratton (2015), who enunciates the need to attend to the culture of AI or popular conception of AI, understood as the intersection between AI and human culture.
It is concluded that the Turing Test provides useful interpretive keys to reflect on the impact of AI on human-computer interactions.
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