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“This is our world. If you want to join it, okay. If you don’t, we’ll leave you behind. Good-bye.” —
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in the computer age
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November 4, 2022
“In 2013 he received a posthumous royal pardon 59 years after his death, having been convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after admitting a sexual relationship with a man. A year later he was immortalised in the Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game and in 2021 he became the face of the £50 note.
A cornerstone of that legacy is in trouble, however. This month a group of staff filed a complaint with the Charity Commission, which has a regulatory role over because the nominally independent organisation is a registered charity – albeit largely funded by the UK government.
The complaint raised eight points of concern including the possibility that £100m of government funding might be withdrawn, which “could lead to the Institute’s collapse”.
The Guardian
‘Shut it down and start again’: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisisWhistleblower warns UK’s top AI research body in danger of collapse due to threats over funding and new direction
