Bletchley Park
 Bletchley Park(COMINT, Signals intelligence)    | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Entrance to Bletchley Park where British codebreakers famously cracked the ‘Enigma’ code during World War II |
Bletchley Park (aka Station X) is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied codebreaking during the Second World War.
Station X housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz cipher machines. The GC&CS team of codebreakers included John Tiltman, Dilwyn Knox, Alan Turing, Harry Golombek, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Donald Michie, Bill Tutte and Stuart Milner-Barry.
Classified information
The Station X team devised automatic machinery to help with decryption, culminating in the development of 'Colossus', the world's first programmable digital electronic computer. Codebreaking operations at Bletchley Park ended in 1946 and all information about the wartime operations was classified until the mid-1970s. After the war it had various uses and now houses the Bletchley Park Museum.[1]
Global AI safety summit
In July 2023, CIA Director William Burns delivered the annual Ditchley Lecture, in which he said that harnessing the power of A.I. represented “the most profound transformation of espionage tradecraft since the Cold War”.
In November 2023, Bletchley Park hosted the inaugural global AI safety summit to which were invited academics and executives from Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic to cover topics such as automation, misinformation and existential risks surrounding AI. Prior to the summit, the UK government announced it is preparing to invest £100m (US$126.3m) in computer chips to help build a national AI Research Resource.[2]
References
This page imported content from Wikipedia on 29 May 2025.Wikipedia is not affiliated with Wikispooks. Original page source here
