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Alan Turing

August 2026

  • Silhouette of a male prisoner looking out of the window of his cell

    Chemical suppression: why the UK is exploring libido control drugs to treat sex offenders

    Treatment is already required by parole boards in several countries, but some feel the practice is unethical

July 2026

  • People view artworks by Ana Mendieta during a press preview for the exhibition dedicated to the Cuban-American artist, at Tate Modern in London, Britain, 13 July 2026.

    Brief letters
    My advice to new Tate director – show us more art

  • Professor Sarah Dillon smiles while holding open a book displaying two pages of handwritten text

    Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side

April 2026

  • Alan Turing Institute signage

    UK’s leading AI research institute told to make ‘significant’ changes

    Alan Turing Institute told by funder to offer better strategy and more value for money after board was reminded of legal duties by watchdog

October 2025

  • COLOSSUS computing machine used to read Nazi codes at Bletchley Park, England, during World War 2B0J43P COLOSSUS computing machine used to read Nazi codes at Bletchley Park, England, during World War 2

    The teamwork behind Bletchley Park’s Colossus computer

  • Black and white head shot of Tommy Flowers, a Post Office engineer who worked at Bletchley Park, England, in the 1940s and created the Colossus codebreaking machine

    Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

September 2025

  • Mark Edel-Hunt as Alan Turing in Breaking the Code.

    Breaking the Code review – tribute to Alan Turing given a fascinating update

  • Jean Innes

    Head of UK’s beleaguered Alan Turing Institute resigns

August 2025

  • Alan Turing

    Australian novel attracts controversy over fictionalised depiction of gay codebreaker Alan Turing

  • Alan Turing

    ‘Shut it down and start again’: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

June 2025

  • Portrait of Alan Turing among his scientific papers

    Wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers sell for £465,000 at auction

    Cache of Turing’s work was almost shredded after being discovered in a house clearance in London last year

May 2025

  • The collection of Norman Routledge

    Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150,000

  • The Enigma machine, looking like a typewriter, in a wooden case

    Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say

March 2025

  • Alan Turing, photographed in the 1930s.

    ‘A very camp environment’: why Alan Turing fatefully told police he was gay

    Ubiquity of then-illegal relations at King’s College, Cambridge, explains puzzling 1952 admission, says scholar

December 2024

  • View of the British Library in London, where the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence and data science, is based

    Redundancies would put Alan Turing Institute at risk, staff say

    UK’s AI research body’s ‘ability to be a serious scientific organisation’ is in danger, 90 staff tell trustees

November 2024

  • Ai-Da Robot, first humanoid robot artist to have artwork auctioned<br>epa11695924 An undated handout photo made available by Sotheby's on 01 November 2024 shows the Ai-Da Robot in front of their AI created 'A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing' artwork, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Ai-Da Robot is the first humanoid robot artist to have an artwork auctioned by a major auction house, participating in Sotheby's Digital Art Sale from 31 October to 07 November. EPA/SOTHEBY'S HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDITHANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1m

    Portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing was created by Ai-Da, one of the most advanced robots in the world

October 2024

  • The Alan Turing Institute focuses on AI and data science.

    UK’s Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process

    Institute for AI and data science sends memo saying it will concentrate on fewer projects

September 2024

  • Composite: Getty Images/Guardian design

    The Audio Long Read
    No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship – podcast

    The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a panic about computers gaining power over humankind. But the real threat comes from falling for the hype. By Navneet Alang
    Podcast33:13

August 2024

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    The long read
    No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship

    The long read: The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a panic about computers gaining power over humankind. But the real threat comes from falling for the hype

March 2024

  • View across the British Library to the St Pancras hotel and railway station, London, England. The Alan Turing Institute is located on the first floor of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London

    Staff at Alan Turing Institute speak out after four men given top roles

    Employees say there is a trend of limited diversity among the senior scientific leadership at the London centre for AI
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