E176 - The Age of AI

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

February 2025

Here at Bletchley Park - one of the birthplaces of modern computing – our latest temporary exhibition ‘The Age of AI’ has just opened. This new gallery explores the power and potential of AI in our everyday lives. From the 1930s origins of what we now call ‘artificial intelligence’, to the incredible (or alarming?) potential it might bring, the exhibition explores the benefits and risks of AI in our world today.

In this episode, Head of Content Erica Munro meets the team behind the exhibition’s creation. Come with us on a gallery tour with Exhibitions and Interpretation Manager Tilly Davis, and hear from experts and visitors on their impressions of what AI means to them. There’s also a deeper dive into the research and exhibition’s case studies with Content Curator Steve Swaby.

Many thanks to our contributors Dame Wendy Hall, Dr Ed Pyzer-Knapp, Professor David Leslie and our Friends of Bletchley Park exhibition preview visitors.

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2025

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:39.1	Welcome to the February 2025 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:45.5	The Age of AI.
0:47.8	Here at Bletchley Park, one of the birthplaces of modern computing, our latest temporary exhibition, The Age of AI, has just opened.
0:57.0	This new gallery explores the power and potential of AI in our everyday lives. From the 1930s
1:03.2	origins of what we might now call artificial intelligence to the incredible or alarming potential
1:09.7	it might bring.
1:11.1	The exhibition explores the benefits and risks of AI in our world today.
1:17.5	In this episode, Head of Content, Erica Munro, meets the team behind the exhibition's creation.
1:23.4	Come with us on a gallery tour with exhibitions and interpretation manager, Tilly Davis,
1:28.4	and hear from experts and visitors on their impressions of what AI means to them.
1:34.0	There's also a deeper dive into the research and exhibition's case studies with content
1:39.0	creator Steve Swaby. Many thanks to our contributors, Dame Wendy Hall, Dr Ed Pysernapp, Professor David
1:47.0	Lesley and the Friends of Bletchley Park exhibition preview visitors.
1:51.0	Listeners may be wondering why does Bletchley Park have an AI exhibition?
2:04.1	What are the connections between artificial intelligence and the World War II site?
2:10.8	Tilly, if you ask that question straight off, what's your first thought?
2:14.2	What connects Bletchley Park and artificial intelligence?
2:16.8	So Bletchley Park is quite a unique place to have this exhibition because it's connected both to
2:22.8	the history of artificial intelligence and to its more contemporary past as well.
2:27.9	Bletchley Park is often thought of as one of the birthplaces of computing and technology.
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