This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Zašto predlažem opću upotrebu naziva ‘takozvana umjetna inteligencija’?” It has been translated by the author and reproduced here with the permission of Kronika. Let us imagine a thought experiment that frames the question: Does what we call artificial intelligence govern our beliefs? Let us further imagine that, in conducting this experiment, we do not rely on its intellectual services at all. It is hardly surprising that today it seems almost self-evident to us that these large algorithmic systems for data processing possess “beliefs,” since they use human language, structure, and tone. Precisely for this reason, it is essential at the very outset of such an inquiry to distinguish between two matters that might otherwise appear obvious: So-called artificial intelligence predicts the most probable and most useful continuation of a sentence on the basis of the enormous quantities of data at its disposal. So-called artificial intelligence has neither consciousness, nor emotions, nor personal life experience—the very foundations of human belief. To put it more plainly, it has no …