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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

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

Alan Turing
The ATI is named after Alan Turing, the pioneering British computer scientist and cryptologist instrumental in breaking Germany's Enigma machine code during the second world war. Photograph: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

When the UK government announced the creation of the Alan Turing Institute in 2014 it promised a “fitting memorial” to the renowned computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer.

More than a decade on, Britain’s leading AI institute is in turmoil as staff warn it may be in danger of collapse and ministers demand a shift in focus to defence and security work.

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