We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge

A New Turing Test for AI's Real-World Knowledge

A fresh set of benchmarks could help specialists better understand artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) models can perform as well as humans on law exams when answering multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions, as seen in a preprint at SSRN (2025). However, they struggle to perform real-world legal tasks.

Some lawyers have learnt that the hard way, and have been fined for filing AI-generated court briefs that misrepresented principles of law and cited non-existent cases.

Author: Chaudhri, principal scientist at Knowledge Systems Research in Sunnyvale, California.

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Author's summary: New benchmarks are needed to assess AI's real-world knowledge.

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Nature Nature — 2025-10-30

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