person
Ada Lovelace
First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)
Mathematician whose notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine made her the first computer programmer. Foundational reference for thinking about machines and intelligence.
past Mathematician, Independent
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AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentAnticipated the 'Lovelace objection' Turing later named: that machines can only do what we explicitly program them to do, a position later argued and rejected.
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.