Quick profileAlan Turing ranks #97 on the AGI Times 100 (2026) — public researchers, engineers, and builders ranked by influence. Not an intelligence test.
Alan Turing does not need a quarterly product launch to stay influential. The Turing machine, wartime computing, and the 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” framed questions the AGI Times 100 still lives inside: what does it mean for a machine to think, and how would we test it?
Including historical founders is deliberate. Without Turing, McCarthy, Hopper, and Minsky, modern influencer lists float free of the discipline’s actual history. Students searching “Turing Test” deserve a profile that connects 1950 to 2026 chatbots without cheap mythology.
Read Turing to slow down hype cycles. Then return to practice: evaluation, honesty about limits, and human responsibility for deployed systems.
Known for
- Turing machine
- Turing Test
- Foundations of AI as a field
Timeline
- 1936 — On Computable Numbers
- 1950 — Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Citations & further reading
Why operators careEvery AI 100 needs Turing — eternal name search.