LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Genetic Epistemology Editor: In his recent article in AI Magazine, "AI prepares for 2001," Nils Nilsson put forward a paradigm of AI based on a declarative representation of knowledge with semantic attachments to problem-specific procedures and data structures. The author discussed various research strategies for AI and specifically a computer-individual project was introduced as an efficient way of stimulating research and advances in the basic science of AI The undertaking of such a project immediately raises some classical psychological questions. Besides the deductive versus inductive or declarative versus procedural controversials, problems related to knowledge representation and evolution in an interactive environment must be considered. I would like to present some ideas and concepts stemming from current research in Genetic Epistemology (GE), initiated by Jean Piaget, as possible contributions to AI research fields. Knowledge is a common preoccupation for GE and AI.