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Alan Turing himself retrospectively framed her as the progenitor of debates on the possibility of artificial intelligence. In an echo of her curious agency as a translator, he famously quoted “lady Lovelace’s objection” as “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.” (https://c0da.org/contributions/traitors-in-the-machine)