Trump's Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs--and It Worked

Trump's Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs--and It Worked But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term. Seventy years ago last summer, a group of scientists met at Dartmouth College to discuss a wild idea--that machines might one day be capable of human-like thought processes. One of those scientists, John McCarthy, had suggested a name for the new field: artificial intelligence . When you search Google Scholar for "artificial intelligence," approximately 7,420,000 results appear. The term is utterly ubiquitous. Even for people who despise AI, the least of their worries is what we call it.