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Led by Professor Claire Hardaker and Dr Georgina Brown, the Turing 'Bot or Not' Text Edition pilot has been made possible as part of an awarded mini-project with the Security Lancaster institute and School of Social Sciences research assistant, Hope McVean.

This pilot uses the fictional dating app La Vida Lanca and each participant meets Alex, exchanges questions and answers, and then decides whether Alex was a bot… or not.

Interaction changes the problem significantly. A conversational partner must respond appropriately to what has just been said. They need to manage their questions and answers. They have to reciprocate interest, accommodate the other’s style, and if they’re an AI, they’re going to need to maintain a plausible identity over time. Participants can also probe their partner rather than merely inspect what they have been given, and we found that some of our interactants did exactly this.

Conversational AI is increasingly being combined with more autonomous, agentic systems and for fraudsters, this presents an extraordinary opportunity. In principle, such systems can create profiles, maintain multiple conversations, personalise their approaches, and operate continuously at considerable scale. Their human operator might decide to intervene only when a conversation becomes financially promising, but in some cases, if their system is good enough and the funds are arriving in their bank accounts, they may not need to intervene at all.

For more information on the Turing Bot or Not Text Edition and its findings, please click .