What name did Turing give to Lovelace's AI-related criticism?

Turing gave Lovelace’s AI-related criticism the name “Lady Lovelace’s Objection.”

The phrase refers to Ada Lovelace’s argument in her 1843 notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Lovelace wrote that the machine could follow instructions and perform analysis, but could not originate anything independently. Her point was not that machines were useless; rather, she drew a boundary between executing ordered operations and producing genuinely new ideas.

Alan Turing discussed this argument in his 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” the work that introduced the question behind the Turing test. He restated the objection as the claim that computers can do only what people tell them to do, then challenged it by arguing that machines might produce results that surprise their programmers, especially when complex consequences are difficult to foresee.

The other options belong to different debates. The Turing Test concerns whether a machine can imitate human conversation, while the Chinese Room is John Searle’s later thought experiment. “Lovelace Paradox” is not Turing’s canonical name for this objection.