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In his review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, McCarthy says that one of his reasons for inventing the term 'artificial intelligence' was to escape association with cybernetics and with Norbert Wiener. Copy claim link
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Date Date unknown Scope and limits McCarthy's own retrospective statement, attributed to him; it does not date the invention and is kept apart from the earliest-located record (the 1955 proposal, of which he is one of four authors).
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Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, Brian Bloomfield, ed. ↗ John McCarthy's pages at Stanford (www-formal.stanford.edu) · Publication date unknown
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Source excerpt “one of the reasons for inventing the term ``artificial intelligence'' was to escape association with ``cybernetics''” Location in source Paragraph on Schopman's chapter and influences
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Source details and check notes Authors John McCarthy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 b2d0a5f40b99339f4871035960add7ab06f9a7bc2bdd25ce1082897dbf667640). Author's HTML page; the review carries no publication date in the retrieved text, and the page footer is a generation stamp 'Tue Jun 13 03:06:03 PDT 2000'. Where the review was printed was not established from a retrieved source. jmc.stanford.edu refused (connection closed); this is the www-formal host. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution John McCarthy, “Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, Brian Bloomfield, ed.”. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 56) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, Brian Bloomfield, ed. ↗ John McCarthy's pages at Stanford (www-formal.stanford.edu) · Publication date unknown
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Source excerpt “I wished to avoid having either to accept Norbert (not Robert) Wiener as a guru or having to argue with him” Location in source Same paragraph, next sentence
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Source details and check notes Authors John McCarthy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 b2d0a5f40b99339f4871035960add7ab06f9a7bc2bdd25ce1082897dbf667640). Author's HTML page; the review carries no publication date in the retrieved text, and the page footer is a generation stamp 'Tue Jun 13 03:06:03 PDT 2000'. Where the review was printed was not established from a retrieved source. jmc.stanford.edu refused (connection closed); this is the www-formal host. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution John McCarthy, “Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, Brian Bloomfield, ed.”. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (21 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 56) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
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Source excerpt “As suggested by the term ``artificial intelligence'' we weren't considering human behavior except as a clue to possible effective ways of doing tasks.” Location in source Paragraph on the Dartmouth proposal and the 'cognitive revolution'
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Source details and check notes Authors John McCarthy Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 b2d0a5f40b99339f4871035960add7ab06f9a7bc2bdd25ce1082897dbf667640). Author's HTML page; the review carries no publication date in the retrieved text, and the page footer is a generation stamp 'Tue Jun 13 03:06:03 PDT 2000'. Where the review was printed was not established from a retrieved source. jmc.stanford.edu refused (connection closed); this is the www-formal host. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution John McCarthy, “Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence, Brian Bloomfield, ed.”. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (23 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. McCarthy's gloss on the term's sense in the proposal. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 56) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. The review is undated in the retrieved text; it postdates the 1987 Boston conference on AI and law that it mentions. The HTML page's generation stamp is 2000-06-13.
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