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He taught machines to think in a world that couldn’t think outside the box

The war was over—but for Alan Turing, the real battle was just beginning.

In part two, Dany and Claire pick up the story after the fall of Nazi Germany, following Turing’s evolution from wartime cryptanalyst to the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. From the design of the Automatic Computing Engine to his groundbreaking “Turing Test,” he dared to ask one question that would define an entire century: Can machines think?

But even as Turing’s ideas redefined intelligence itself, his country branded him a criminal for loving another man. Convicted of “gross indecency” in 1952, forced to undergo chemical castration, and stripped of his security clearance, the very state he had saved turned him into an outcast.

We follow Turing’s final years, his mysterious death, and the slow, decades-long journey to restore his name—from public apology to royal pardon to the “Alan Turing Law.” Along the way, we reflect on how his story mirrors the broader queer struggle: how progress often comes in code, and how even the most brilliant minds can be broken by systems they helped build.

Because Alan Turing didn’t just teach machines to think—he showed humanity how to feel.