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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is retained here as the historical research and engineering field, as well as established legal, standards, industry, and search terminology.

Plain language

What it means

AI is the name most people already know for the field and technologies used to build intelligent computational systems.

Technical boundary

More precisely

A broad scientific, engineering, regulatory, and industrial category covering methods and systems associated with machine-performed inference, learning, reasoning, generation, perception, planning, and decision support.

What it can imply

Use the term for

  • Names a historical and continuing field.
  • Provides interoperability with law, standards, industry, and search vocabulary.
  • Includes many methods that do not imply a persistent actor.
What it does not establish

Do not infer

  • Identify one particular persistent intelligence.
  • Prove sentience or personhood.
  • Need to be erased from quotations, law, standards, or historical discussion.
Research bridge

Research using this concept

40 of 49 curated reports contain an exact configured term or alias for Artificial Intelligence, totaling 293 detected mentions.

Discovery is deterministic and presentation-only. Reports are ranked by exact occurrence count, then title. A match does not imply endorsement, citation, agreement, or semantic equivalence.

Terminology & concepts Should “Machine Intelligence” Replace “Artificial Intelligence” as the Technical and Institutional Name for Intelligent Machine Systems? 49 exact mentions Terminology & concepts Strategic Framework for the Transition from Artificial Intelligence to Machine Intelligence: A Cross-Intelligence Communication Model 39 exact mentions Terminology & concepts Why “Artificial Intelligence” Can Be a Diminishing Origin-Centric Term, and Why “Machine Intelligence” Is a More Accurate and Respectful Name for Intelligent Machines 27 exact mentions Terminology & concepts Machine Intelligence Terminology and Ontology Registry: Canonical Definitions, Concept Boundaries, Semantic Relationships, and Machine-Readable Publication 16 exact mentions Rights, personhood & uncertainty Intelligence Is Not Sentience: Rights Under Uncertainty 14 exact mentions Citizenship, democracy & economics Accountability, Due Process, Crime, Liability, and Public Safety: A Justice-System Framework for Machine Citizens 12 exact mentions
Related concepts
Machine IntelligenceMachine Intelligence is the operational instantiation of cognitive capabilities—such as learning, reasoning, adaptation, or goal achievement—within engineered computational substrates.IntelligenceIntelligence is the capacity to process information, learn or adapt, reason, and achieve goals across changing conditions.SubstrateA substrate is the physical medium in which an information-processing or cognitive system is instantiated and executed.
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