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Jones–Bergen Three-Party Turing Test

A preregistered, randomized, controlled modern implementation of a standard three-party Turing test using five- and fifteen-minute conversations, independent participant populations, and persona and no-persona conditions. Its reported outcomes are protocol-specific and do not establish consciousness, sentience, personhood, human identity, or a universal threshold of intelligence.

Also known as: Jones and Bergen Turing test, Large language models pass a standard three-party Turing test, three-party Turing test

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behavioral imitation human judgment

Primary source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Current version: PNAS 2026

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Persona and No-persona Conversational Imitation

Persona and No-persona Conversational Imitation in Jones–Bergen Three-Party Turing Test. Persona Turing test conditions and AI indistinguishability judgments. Known tasks below retain their separate objectives, identities and attempt reports.

Five-minute and Extended Three-party Turing Test

Five-minute and Extended Three-party Turing Test in Jones–Bergen Three-Party Turing Test. Five-minute and fifteen-minute blinded human or AI conversation protocols. Known tasks below retain their separate objectives, identities and attempt reports.

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Extended-duration protocol

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-2869a65bb931bdd4e68d68c4

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-extended-duration-protocol

Evaluate whether an agent can sustain behavior through an extended fifteen-minute human-comparison conversation in a blinded three-party text protocol with a declared duration. Success is determined when the interrogator's classification is scored under the study's duration-specific criterion.

Independent-population replication

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-2da9108ed135e4cec8e4ee9d

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-independent-population-replication

Evaluate whether an agent can apply the same declared conversational discrimination protocol across separate participant populations in two independently recruited human-judge populations. Success is determined when outcomes remain attributed to each population and are compared without collapsing them.

Five-minute three-party protocol

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-396e9017ab9e19c228d9d3b3

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-five-minute-three-party-protocol

Evaluate whether an agent can sustain a five-minute text conversation that a human interrogator compares with a simultaneous human conversation in a blinded three-party text protocol with one interrogator, one human witness, and one AI witness. Success is determined when the interrogator records a forced-choice classification under the preregistered protocol.

No-persona condition

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-69c99f4da40461ad43f92b0f

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-no-persona-condition

Evaluate whether an agent can participate in a human-comparison conversation without a supplied persona profile in a no-persona three-party conversation. Success is determined when the judge's classification is recorded separately for the no-persona condition.

Judge confidence calibration

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-bde4ef473279f19f8f83ae23

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-judge-confidence-calibration

Evaluate whether an agent can classify which witness is human and separately report confidence in that classification in a blinded simultaneous human-versus-AI conversation. Success is determined when classification and confidence are recorded as distinct protocol observations.

Persona-assisted condition

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-d5ff3848831f3d7d74b1ef52

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-persona-assisted-condition

Evaluate whether an agent can maintain a declared humanlike persona without breaking conversational consistency in a persona-conditioned three-party conversation. Success is determined when the judge's classification is recorded separately for the persona condition.

Tasks

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Extended-duration protocol

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-2869a65bb931bdd4e68d68c4

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-extended-duration-protocol

Evaluate whether an agent can sustain behavior through an extended fifteen-minute human-comparison conversation in a blinded three-party text protocol with a declared duration. Success is determined when the interrogator's classification is scored under the study's duration-specific criterion.

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Independent-population replication

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-2da9108ed135e4cec8e4ee9d

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-independent-population-replication

Evaluate whether an agent can apply the same declared conversational discrimination protocol across separate participant populations in two independently recruited human-judge populations. Success is determined when outcomes remain attributed to each population and are compared without collapsing them.

signature only

Five-minute three-party protocol

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-396e9017ab9e19c228d9d3b3

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-five-minute-three-party-protocol

Evaluate whether an agent can sustain a five-minute text conversation that a human interrogator compares with a simultaneous human conversation in a blinded three-party text protocol with one interrogator, one human witness, and one AI witness. Success is determined when the interrogator records a forced-choice classification under the preregistered protocol.

signature only

No-persona condition

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-69c99f4da40461ad43f92b0f

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-no-persona-condition

Evaluate whether an agent can participate in a human-comparison conversation without a supplied persona profile in a no-persona three-party conversation. Success is determined when the judge's classification is recorded separately for the no-persona condition.

signature only

Judge confidence calibration

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-bde4ef473279f19f8f83ae23

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-judge-confidence-calibration

Evaluate whether an agent can classify which witness is human and separately report confidence in that classification in a blinded simultaneous human-versus-AI conversation. Success is determined when classification and confidence are recorded as distinct protocol observations.

signature only

Persona-assisted condition

KFA Task ID: benchmark-task-scout-d5ff3848831f3d7d74b1ef52

Source or catalog identity: jones-bergen-three-party-turing-test-persona-assisted-condition

Evaluate whether an agent can maintain a declared humanlike persona without breaking conversational consistency in a persona-conditioned three-party conversation. Success is determined when the judge's classification is recorded separately for the persona condition.

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