This presentation concerns a re-reading of Alan Turing’s queer self-presentation alongside a re-reading of his contributions to the scientific field of artificial intelligence. Turing was highly engaged with the intersubjectivity and embodiment of his thinking machine. Thus, from the very beginnings of its artificial inception he was aware of the risks involved should it be fundamentally denied its claim to proper intelligence and appropriate response. As such, his modelling of the human mind was always conducted with a view to making room for its artificial counterpart to be intellectually and emotionally companions to it in ways that mimicked the homosocial norms of his privileged youth as a product of both England’s public schooling and imperial administration. Essentially, this means that Turing was all over the place with his loyalties and affections and as a consequence, he believed it wholly possible to share out his liminal desires amongst genders, humans, and machines. 

At the same time, Turing understood that the sentimental capacity for love, rather than the biological act of sexual intercourse, was the feature previously held up to deny full claims to humanity to those differentially raced, abled, and gendered within society. Affinity amongst these categories comes through an assumption at one level that they share a type of social disability. In contrast, at another that they share a kind of potential that accedes towards the possibility of emergent instantiations of being. The computer analytics that Turing introduces into the world fundamentally disrupts and alters the location of gender so that it assumes the position of the posthuman. In many senses, this becomes the source of what could effectively become a postgender reality due to the conjoining of artificial intelligence and mathematical biology.