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Large language models pass a standard three-party Turing test.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·May 26, 2026·PMID 42154549

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For pain medicine specialists, this signals that LLMs can convincingly mimic human conversational behavior, which has implications for patient-facing AI tools, telehealth interactions, and the potential for AI to influence clinical communication or patient education.

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