Alan Turing

Alan Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence proposes the imitation game and discusses educating a child-machine. The latter includes reward and punishment, alongside other communication channels.^[1]

In the origins guide, this provides background for two questions: recognizing intelligent performance and teaching desired behavior. It does not make Turing the founder of a fully formed contemporary alignment discipline or establish a direct influence on every later learning method.

This profile covers selected sections of the 1950 paper, not his complete career. See machine intelligence for the conceptual distinction.