AI

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ai"

Translingual

Symbol

AI

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Anguilla since 1985.

   Synonym: AIA (alpha-3)

2. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Afars and the Issas from 1974 to 1977.

   Synonyms: AFI (alpha-3 1974–1977), DJ (1977–present, as Djibouti)

Usage notes

• In relation to the Afars and the Issas, the code was deprecated in favor of DJ upon the country gaining independence as Djibouti.

English

Alternative forms

• A.I.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ā′ī′
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌeɪ̯ˈaɪ̯/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌeɪ̯ˈʌɪ̯/

  Audio (US):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌæɪ̯ˈɑe̯/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌæɪ̯ˈaɪ̯/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌeˈaɪ̯/, /ˌeˈʌi̯/, /ˌeˈəi̯/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌeːˈaj/

• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Hyphenation: AI

Noun

AI (countable and uncountable, plural AIs)

2. (artificial intelligence, countable and uncountable) Initialism of artificial intelligence.

   Coordinate terms: AGI, ASI

   • 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 73:

     “Wintermute is the recognition code for an AI. I've got the Turing Registry Numbers. Artificial Intelligence.”

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Codex entry:

     The geth serve as a cautionary tale against the dangers of rogue AI, and in Citadel Space they are technically illegal. Advocacy groups argue, however, that an AI is a living, conscious entity deserving the same rights as organics. They argue that continued use of the term "artificial" is institutionalized racism on the part of organic life, the term "synthetic" is considered the politically correct alternative.

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     The result, Gurry said, will be many new AI-based methods and products that can change lives across the world.

   • 2022, Catriona Campbell, AI by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series)‎^[2], Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN:

     A Vatican directive supplements such principles and states AI should be “explainable” to humans, i.e., we should be able to explain the reasons for a decision made by AI. The document also states that AI should avoid discrimination.

   • 2023 March 21, Ian Bogost, “Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?”, in The Atlantic‎^[3], archived from the original on 25 March 2023:

     The same is true for AIs that play (and win) these games.

   • 2023 March 29, Eliezer Yudkowsky, “The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough”, in TIME‎^[4], archived from the original on 26 July 2023:

     An aside: None of this danger depends on whether or not AIs are or can be conscious; it’s intrinsic to the notion of powerful cognitive systems that optimize hard and calculate outputs that meet sufficiently complicated outcome criteria.

   • 2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews‎^[5]:

     The report illustrated how easily matters of authorship can be muddled with AI using the example of a Gemini-generated cat smoking a pipe and reading a newspaper.

   1. (by extension, countable) A specific artificial intelligence program, such as the chatbot ChatGPT.
   2. (video games) The system that controls the behavior of enemies and non-player characters.
      • 2003 December, “Epic Preview”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, Sword of Mana, page 108:

        The character you are not controlling will follow you around and attack using [Sword of Mana]'s AI.

      • 2025 February, Lauren Morton, “Review: Dragon Age: The Veilguard”, in PC Gamer (US)‎^[6], number 392, page 54; published online 28 October 2024:

        I still wish my party members weren't reduced to AI helpers with no health bars who I control only through a radial menu to fire off their skill combos.

   3. (video games, countable) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.

      Synonyms: NPC, CPU, bot

3. (management) Initialism of action item.
4. (British airforce) Initialism of airborne intelligence (synonym for an early type of airborne radar).
5. (phonetics) Initialism of articulatory index.
6. (biology, medicine) Initialism of artificial insemination.
7. (nutrition) Initialism of adequate intake.
8. Abbreviation of angiotensin I.
9. (linguistics, anthropology) Initialism of atavistic-idiosyncratic.
10. (aviation) Initialism of attitude indicator.
11. (underwater diving) Initialism of air integration.
12. (education) Initialism of academic integrity.
13. Initialism of amelogenesis imperfecta.

Usage notes

• The initialism AI is most commonly and widely understood to refer to artificial intelligence. Indeed, the term is frequently used without being expanded, as its meaning is generally assumed to be readily understood in context.

Derived terms

• agentic AI
• AI art
• AI artist
• AI bubble
• AI drift
• AI-first
• AIgiarism
• AI-native
• AI notkilleveryoneism
• AIOps
• AIpocalypse
• AI psychosis
• AI scribe
• AI slop
• AI successionism
• AI washing
• AI whisperer
• AI winter
• frontier AI
• generative AI
• shadow AI

Related terms

• (angiotensin I): AII, AIII, AIV

Translations

artificial intelligence

• Afrikaans: KI (af)
• Albanian: IA f
• Aragonese: IA f
• Armenian: արհեստ��կան բանականություն (hy) (arhestakan banakanutʻyun), ԱԲ (AB)
• Azerbaijani: Sİ, SZ
• Breton: NA f
• Bulgarian: ИИ (II)
• Catalan: IA (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人工智能 (zh) (réngōng zhìnéng)

• Czech: UI f
• Danish: AI (da) or ai (da)
• Dutch: KI f, ki (nl) f, AI (nl) f
• Esperanto: AI
• Finnish: tekoäly (fi)
• French: IA (fr) f
• Galician: IA f
• Georgian: ხი (xi) (rare)
• German: KI (de) f
• Greek: ΤΝ (el) f (TN)
• Hindi: कृत्रिम बुद्धि f (kŕtrim buddhi), कृबु f (kŕbu), आर्टिफ़िशियल इंटेलिजेंस f (ārṭifiśiyal iṇṭelijens), एआई m (eāī)
• Hungarian: MI (hu)
• Irish: IS
• Italian: IA (it) f
• Japanese: 人工知能 (ja) (じんこうちのう, jinkō chinō), AI (ja) (AI)
• Korean: 인공지능(人工知能) (ko) (in'gongjineung), 에이아이 (eiai)
• Latvian: MI m
• Lithuanian: DI m
• Maltese: AI
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: KI m

  Nynorsk: KI m

• Persian: هوشوار
• Polish: SI (pl) f
• Portuguese: IA (pt) f
• Romanian: IA f
• Russian: ИИ́ (ru) m (IÍ)
• Sicilian: NA
• Spanish: IA (es) f
• Swahili: AM, AB
• Swedish: AI (sv) c
• Tamil: செநு (ta) (cenu), ஏஐ (ē’ai)
• Thai: เอไอ (th) (ee-ai)
• Turkish: YZ (tr)
• Ukrainian: ШІ́ (uk) m (ŠÍ)
• Welsh: DA m
• Xibe: ᡝᡞ
  ᠠᡞ (ei ai)

artificial insemination

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人工授精 (zh) (réngōng shòujīng)

• Dutch: ki (nl) f
• Finnish: keinosiemennys (fi)
• French: IA (fr) f
• Greek: τεχνητή γονιμοποίηση f (technití gonimopoíisi)
• Hindi: कृत्रिम गर्भाधान m (kŕtrim garbhādhān), कृग m (kŕg)
• Polish: zapłodnienie in vitro n
• Russian: ЭКО (ru) n (EKO)
• Spanish: inseminación artificial f

Verb

AI (third-person singular simple present AIs, present participle AIing, simple past and past participle AIed)

1. (informal, transitive, sometimes intransitive) To use artificial intelligence to search for or generate content.

Proper noun

AI

1. (aviation) Initialism of Air India.
2. (television) Initialism of American Idol.
3. Initialism of Amnesty International.
4. (software) Initialism of Adobe Illustrator.

Adjective

AI (comparative more AI, superlative most AI)

1. Generated or appearing to have been generated by artificial intelligence.
   • 2025 January 13, @Dani_the_goose, "What does this portrait make look off and like AI?"‎^[7]:

     It definitely doesn’t look AI, her right (our left) pupil looks a bit shifted towards the center of her face, but it might be the highlights.

   • 2025 December 13, @bookelmen, "Is the Polish cover art for "The Return of the Shadow" AI? It looks really suspicious to me, especially compared to how detailed and beautiful the previous covers are (pic 2 is "The Lost Road")"‎^[8]:

     honestly the Lost Road cover seems more AI to me, but it's too low res to tell, and who knows these days

Further reading

• “AI”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “AI”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• -ia, IA, i.a.

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English AI.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eˈjɑj] (phonetic respelling: eyay)

Noun

AI (definite accusative AI-ı, plural AI-lar)

1. (colloquial) AI (artificial intelligence)

   Synonyms: Sİ, süni intellekt

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English AI.

Noun

AI c

1. synonym of kunstig intelligens (“artificial intelligence”); AI

Synonyms

• KI or ki
• kunstig intelligens

References

• “AI” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

AI

1. ISO 3166-2:CH code of Appenzell Innerrhoden (canton)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English AI.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɪ̯ ˈaɪ̯/

Noun

AI f (genitive AI, plural AIs)

1. synonym of künstliche Intelligenz (“AI”)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.i/, [ˈa.i]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ai̯/, [ˈɛ.ai̯] (English-influenced)

Noun

AI (plural AI-AI)

1. (computing) initialism of akal imitasi (“artificial intelligence”)

Further reading

• “AI”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

From English AI.

1. synonym of intelligenza artificiale (“artificial intelligence”); IA

Noun

AI f

1. AI

Synonyms

• IA
• intelligenza artificiale

Anagrams

• -ai, ai, ài

Japanese

Etymology

From English AI.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e̞ːa̠i]
• (Tokyo) エーアイ [èéáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [3])

Noun

AI(エーアイ) • (ēai) 

1. synonym of 人工知能 (jinkō chinō, “artificial intelligence”); AI

Malay

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English AI.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e.ʔaj]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: A‧I

Noun

AI

1. initialism of kecerdasan buatan

Further reading

• "AI" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "AI" at PRPM first version)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

First attested in 1983 in Norwegian. Unadapted borrowing from English AI (“artificial intelligence”), an initialism of artificial intelligence. The English term artificial intelligence was coined in 1955 by John McCarthy.

English artificial is from Middle English artificial (“artificial, man-made”), from Old French artificial, from Latin artificiālis (“artificial”), from Latin artificium (“art, craft, skill”), ultimately involving ars (“art, skill, craft”) and facere (“to make, do”). ars ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, join”), while facere ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”).

English intelligence is from Middle English intelligence, from Old French intelligence, from Latin intellegentia (“understanding, intelligence”), from Latin intellegō (“to understand, perceive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈiː/, [ɑːˈiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: AI

Noun

AI m (definite singular AI-en, indefinite plural AI-er, definite plural AI-ene)

1. artificial intelligence; the capability of a computer or other machine to perform tasks normally associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, language processing and recognizing patterns; also the field and technologies concerned with creating such systems

   Bedriften bruker AI til å analysere store datamengder. ― The company uses AI to analyze large amounts of data.

   Synonym: KI

   • 2015 February 20, Geir Amundsen, “Er kunstig intelligens en trussel mot vår eksistens?”, in Aftenposten:

     Selv synes han det mest skremmende med AI spesielt og den teknologiske utviklingen generelt, er hvordan automatiseringen av «kunnskapsarbeid» […]

     He himself thinks the most frightening thing about AI in particular, and technological development in general, is the automation of “knowledge work” […]

References

• “AI” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

Anagrams

• IA

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English AI. According to SO attested since 1979.

Noun

AI c

1. (artificial intelligence) initialism of artificiell intelligens
2. (video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.

   Synonyms: NPC, bot

Declension

Declension of AI

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	AI	AI:s
	definite	AI:n	AI:ns
plural	indefinite	AI:ar	AI:ars
	definite	AI:arna	AI:arnas

Declension of AI

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	AI	AI:s
	definite	AI:n	AI:ns
plural	indefinite	AI	AI:s
	definite	AI:na	AI:nas

References

• “AI”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English AI.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔəj˧˧ ʔaːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔəj˧˧ ʔaːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔəj˧˧ ʔaːj˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ây ai

Noun

AI

1. synonym of trí tuệ nhân tạo (“artificial intelligence”); AI

Zhuang

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English AI.

Noun

AI

1. synonym of yinzgungh cinwngz (“artificial intelligence”); AI
   • 2026 March 18, Lij Yihangz, “Guhhong Guh Baenz Siengjmuengh Raemxhanh Rwed Daeuj Vuenyungz [Work Turns Dreams Into Reality; Sweat Waters Happiness]”, in Gvangjsih Minzcuz Bau [Chinese: 广西民族报]‎^[9], banj hagseng, page 5:

     Doz neix dwg AI guh.

     The image was AI generated.