The Worst Use Of AI I Have Ever Seen
History repeating itself.
AI has already found some diabolical uses, from unconsented AI-generated porn to political misinformation-spouting bots. However, these are limited to individual rouge actors or openly crooked states. But I recently stumbled across an AI which, on the surface, seems legitimate, wholehearted and progressive. However, if you dig a little deeper, it’s actually profoundly horrific, and what’s worse, I don’t think the people using it realise that. You see, the Bletchley Park Museum recently announced they are building an AI-powered life-size model of Alan Turing, who can talk to visitors. I told you it seems innocent…
You’ve almost certainly heard the name, but let’s recap who Turing was.
Alan Turing was the father of modern computers. During WW2, as a part of the UK’s secret decoding team at Bletchley Park, he broke the German radio encryption machine known as Enigma by building and using a rudimentary computer from analogue switches and rotary drums. Since then, every computer has been routed in Turing’s original design for Bombe.
Turing had a promising career ahead of him after WW2, being a pioneering mathematician and a spearhead of the computing revolution and all. In fact, soon after WW2, he created the Turing test, a rudimentary test to establish if a machine…
