AI as “ideology” may be a stretch, but it tends there with all the mythos behind a word like “artificial intelligence”.

Naming things matters.

While the head of Apple’s ML/AI strategy likes “machine intelligence” [1], I prefer “machine learning”.

“Intelligence” is a loaded word. I think (hope) that “learning” can be understood as narrowly and crudely as the field actually requires.

A more sober term would help the entire world manage this better on average, IMO, than if we use the unnecessarily scary and confusing term “artificial intelligence”.

[1] “For this reason and others, many AI experts (Giannandrea included) have suggested alternative terms like "machine intelligence" that don't draw parallels to human intelligence.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/apple-explains-how-i...