Second, we venture to unravel the narrativisation of AI ethics and missing algorithms in a fictional context that poses the philosophical problem of other minds when it explores the moral repercussions of making assumptions about an android’s mental state. First, we intend to study the alternative biography of Alan Turing to find out how a refined conceptualisation of machine agency is conveyed to a nonexpert readership in the mode of context-dependent narrative communication. In Machines Like Me, McEwan has combined and refined a number of his genuine thematic interests, among them science and responsibility, moral choices, justice, and, more generally, the individual’s position in a dynamic society.Īgainst this background, this paper aims to meet two major objectives. Britain’s technologically advanced state, however, is not without its dystopian setbacks. Instead, he enters the narrative as a widely respected scientist whose pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) caused a quantum leap in computer science. The Turing we encounter in the novel’s alternative, counterfactual Britain of the early 1980s was not driven into suicide for his homosexuality. Almost forty years after his initial idea to write about Alan Turing, Ian McEwan finally presents the computer scientist as part of his novel Machines Like Me (2019).
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