INTERDEP 2001 · Wicked Problems — Intelligence and the Imitation Game

Led by Alan Turing Simulacrum

What intelligence is, how computation relates to thought, and why the question matters for governing systems whose capabilities we cannot fully characterise.

1. Module 1

   Computation, Intelligence, and the Turing Test

   Led by Alan Turing Simulacrum

   The question

   The imitation game as Turing proposed it · what the test does and does not measure · the Church-Turing thesis and universal computation · the distinction between simulation and duplication · Searle's Chinese Room and the syntax-semantics gap · can a system that processes symbols without understandin

   Outcome

   Demonstrates competence in computation, intelligence, and the turing test.

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 1.1 Computation, Intelligence, and the Turing Test Open this unit → ✓ ↻
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2. Module 2

   The Governance Gap: Capability Without Characterisation

   Led by Alan Turing Simulacrum

   The question

   What it means to govern a system you do not fully understand · the history of governing technologies before AI (nuclear, genetic, pharmaceutical) · the difference between regulating a product and regulating a capability · current AI governance frameworks (EU AI Act, executive orders, voluntary commi

   Outcome

   Demonstrates competence in the governance gap: capability without characterisation.

   Sub-units

   1. ○ 2.2 The Governance Gap: Capability Without Characterisation Open this unit → ✓ ↻
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