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Disrupted Boundaries: New Reproductive Technologies and the Language of Anxiety and Expectation. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997. A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing. Arttraditionally taken to stand for all that isconsidered quintessentially human – andtherefore resistant to mechanisation –represents in this sense a kind of 'criticalcase' in the advance of machine intelligence.The article focuses on the moral status of thebody, human agency, and social knowledge in theongoing (re-)constructions of copy, original,and of the difference between them. Thecultural resonances of the recent on-lineperformance of a 'Turing Test' for computergenerated art are then explored.

The artificiallyintelligent object thus appears to threaten thehuman subject with displacement and redundancy.This article takes as its starting point AlanTuring's famous 'imitation game,' (the socalled 'Turing Test'), here treated as aparable of the encounter between human originaland machine copy – the born and the made. The putative ability of machinesto mimic human intelligence appears to callinto question the stability of taken forgranted boundaries between subject/object,identity/similarity, free will/determinism,reality/simulation, etc. For many, the very idea of an artificialintelligence has always been ethicallytroublesome.

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