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/

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

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• 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, 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)‎, 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, 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, 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:

     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.

   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. (agriculture) Initialism of artificial insemination.
7. (nutrition) Initialism of adequate intake.
8. Abbreviation of angiotensin I.
9. (linguistics, anthropology) Initialism of atavistic-idiosyncratic.
10. Initialism of attitude indicator.
11. (underwater diving) Initialism of air integration.
12. (education) Initialism of academic integrity.
13. Initialism of amelogenesis imperfecta.

Usage notes

By far the most common and widely recognized meaning of the initialism "AI", is "artificial intelligence". In fact, said initialism is can easily used for said meaning, without even specifying what it stands for.

Derived terms

• agentic AI
• AI art
• AI artist
• AI bro
• AI drift
• AI-first
• AI-native
• AIOps
• AIpocalypse
• AI psychosis
• AI slop
• AI washing
• AI whisperer
• AI winter
• frontier AI
• generative AI

Related terms

• (angiotensin I): AII, AIII, AIV

Translations

artificial intelligence

Afrikaans: KI (af) Albanian: IA f Aragonese: IA f Armenian: արհեստական բանականություն (hy) (arhestakan banakanutʻyun), ԱԲ (AB) Azerbaijani: Sİ, SZ Bulgarian: ИИ (II) Catalan: IA (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 人工智能 (zh) (réngōng zhìnéng) Czech: UI f Danish: KI (da) or ki (da), 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 iṇṭelijẽs), एआई m (eāī) Hungarian: MI (hu) Japanese: 人工知能 (ja) (じんこうちのう, jinkōchinō), 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 Ojibwe: waasamowin-aabijiibaa 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) 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 Spanish: inseminación artificial f

Verb

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

1. (informal) 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?"‎:

     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")"‎:

     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.

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

AI

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.i/, [ˈa.i]

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

Japanese

Etymology

From English AI.

Pronunciation

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

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

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 (SO)

Vietnamese

Etymology

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