AI is definitely a loaded word. We have years upon years of built up fictional worlds created on the basis of a dystopian future put in place by AI gone wrong.

AI is definitely a loaded word. We have years upon years of built up fictional worlds created on the basis of a dystopian future put in place by AI gone wrong. It's understandable - AI is an enemy that no country will be offended by (as opposed to say, Goldeneye, which vilifies Russia), is unknown enough that suspension of disbelief is easy, and allows for an easy plot device. Sadly, the decisions around AI will likely be based on those pieces of fiction. The average person has spent more time watching movies about AI rather than reading actual research material on it, and will vote accordingly. We should really refrain from using "AI" as a term until artificial general intelligence is actually upon us. Using it to refer to GANs or Deep Convolutional Networks is just feeding the news beast. In addition to changing the terminology though, I think it's also important to change the fiction as well. Project Hieroglyph[1] is one of my favourite efforts in the realm of fiction - it aims to combine scientific papers with fictional stories that represent those advances in a clear and accurate way. If people are going to make decisions based on fiction, we should at least keep the fiction accountable to being realistic and accurate. [1] https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/ https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/