Hari: Tricking majority in double-blind Minecraft tests passes behavioral Turing test
Vish Hari · Redefining Digital Consciousness with Vishnu Hari of ego | The Innovators & Investors Podcast · May 19, 2026 · at 10:23
Vish Hari, founder and CEO of Ego, describes his framework for benchmarking artificial behavioral consciousness and human-like AI agents inside virtual game environments.
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“If you give enough people a double-blind test of an AI, our AI specifically, controlling a Minecraft bot, and if over some, say, arbitrary threshold, 50, 60%, Actually get it wrong and think an AI is a human, you've passed a behavior turing test to some degree.”
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