Turing Test 75th Anniversary Celebration

September 16, 2025

Published in October 1950, Alan Turing’s seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” proposed a test to determine whether machines could think and the hope that machines would eventually compete with humans in all intellectual fields. Seventy-five years later we see this emergent competition between intelligent machines and humans played out in the news media, accompanied by international government interventions and widespread public concern. 

To mark Turing's achievement, the Royal Society and the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, UK have organized a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, co-sponsored by ACM. The event is being held October 2, 2025, 12:30 - 7 pm UTC, at The Royal Society, London, and will be hosted by former ACM President Dame Wendy Hall. Speakers will be ACM A.M Turing laureate Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, and Sir Nigel Shadbolt.

There will be three panels addressing the topics:

• What Did Turing Mean? And How Was It Interpreted? 
  Panelists - Thomas Irvine, Sarah Dillon, Stevan Harnad, Sir Dermot Turing, and Alan Kay
• How is the Turing Test Being Used Today and Is It Still Relevant? 
  Panelists - ACM President Yannis Ioannidis, Abeba Birhane, Yarin Gal, Kaitlyn Regehr, and Gary Marcus
• What is, or Will AGI Be? What Should the Turing Test for the Future Be? 
  Panelists - Dame Wendy Hall, William Isaac, Anil Seth, Shannon Vallor, and Sir Nigel Shadbolt

For more information and to register for the livestream or to attend the celebration, follow this link.