Artificial Intelligence is an "Anti-Concept"

Your semanticist is dissatisfied today. This time it is the buzz phrase "artificial intelligence"--or "AI." While casting large shadow ideas about computing power, the term "AI" does more to obscure than clarify. People who write about innovative uses of computing should probably avoid it. The inspiration for the present jeremiad is a recent Foreign Affairs article entitled "A Force for the Future: A High-Reward, Low-Risk Approach to AI Military Innovation."