{"id":19799,"date":"2025-08-18T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:37:18","slug":"shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shut it down and start again\u2019: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower warns UK\u2019s top AI research body in danger of collapse due to threats over funding and new direction<\/p>\n<p>When the UK government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/plans-for-world-class-research-centre-in-the-uk\">announced the creation of the Alan Turing Institute<\/a> in 2014 it promised a \u201cfitting memorial\u201d to the renowned computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer.<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade on, Britain\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/18\/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2bad3ea562911d154592a484b8dcb7b099c2a57f\/0_398_2543_2035\/master\/2543.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=93a68cda33a10f251f8989f8cc5f1dc0\" title=\"\u2018Shut it down and start again\u2019: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis\" \/>Whistleblower warns UK\u2019s top AI research body in danger of collapse due to threats over funding and new direction<br \/>\nWhen the UK government announced the creation of the Alan Turing Institute in 2014 it promised a \u201cfitting memorial\u201d to the renowned computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer.<br \/>\nMore than a decade on, Britain\u2019s 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. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower warns UK\u2019s top AI research body in danger of collapse due to threats over funding and new direction When the UK government announced the creation of the Alan Turing Institute in 2014 it promised a \u201cfitting memorial\u201d to the renowned computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer. More than a decade on, Britain\u2019s leading AI &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Shut it down and start again\u2019: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}