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
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
February 2024
If you’re raging that ‘Netflix made Alexander the Great gay’, it’s time to learn some LGBTQ+ history
Matt Cain
For centuries, LGBTQ+ lives have been wiped from the record – February represents a chance to celebrate our contribution, says novelist Matt Cain
January 2024
Alan Turing: A Musical Biography review – ode to the codebreaker is bafflingly dull
The compelling life of the world-changing mathematician and logician is somehow rendered unremarkable in a drab musical
October 2023
Race to AI: the origins of artificial intelligence, from Turing to ChatGPT
Today’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines
July 2023
LGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinth
Trafalgar Square monument would stand in ‘stark contrast’ to treatment codebreaker received in his lifetime
April 2023
The danger of blindly embracing the rise of AI
Letters: Readers express their hopes, and fears, about recent developments in artificial intelligence chatbots
December 2022
Due recognition for Poland’s codebreaking pioneers
Letter: A memorial at Bletchley Park honours their contribution to winning the war, says Michael Saunders
August 2022
New musical tells the story of wartime hero Alan Turing
Edinburgh Fringe show sets out to tell the tale of the code-breaker whose crucial work on German cyphers helped win the second world war
April 2022
Intelligence Factory exhibition sheds light on secret Bletchley Park operation
Top secret second world war code-breaking centre in Buckinghamshire was the forerunner of GCHQ
January 2022
Past convictions for homosexual activity to be wiped from records, Patel to announce
UK’s disregards and pardons scheme set to be expanded to ‘right wrongs of the past’
July 2021
Pure folly: Turing family join fight to save ‘blue-skies maths’ from neglect
As hard-pressed universities axe abstract study, the codebreaker’s great niece and top mathematicians are fighting back
March 2021
Brief letters
How to slow down in a fast-moving world
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'It captures so much of Turing's work': Bank of England unveils new £50 note – video
New £50 note featuring Alan Turing to enter circulation in June
GCHQ releases 'most difficult puzzle ever' in honour of Alan Turing
December 2020
German museum to restore Enigma machine found on seabed
Desalination of code machine - which divers thought was ‘old typewriter’ - to take 12 months
August 2020
Bletchley Park: third of staff face redundancy because of coronavirus
Trust that runs the museum says it expects to lose about £2m in 2020
June 2020
From the Guardian archive
Alan Turing obituary – archive, 10 June 1954
10 June 1954: Dr Turing was one of the pioneers of the electronic calculating machine in Britain
April 2020
Silent film reel shows staff connected to Bletchley Park for first time
Footage, preserved in original canister, shows people who worked at secret wartime site