# The Dartmouth workshop (1956): SI History

> The Dartmouth summer workshop names the field "artificial intelligence," the term the United States replaced with Super Intelligence in 2026.

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# The Dartmouth workshop (1956)

The Dartmouth summer workshop names the field "artificial intelligence," the term the United States replaced with Super Intelligence in 2026.

Date
:   1956

Type
:   Milestone

Status
:   Happened

Era
:   1956

## What happened

The Dartmouth summer workshop names the field "artificial intelligence," the term the United States replaced with Super Intelligence in 2026.

## Why it matters

The workshop proposal by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon assumed that every feature of intelligence could in principle be described precisely enough for a machine to simulate it. Seventy years later the United States retired the name the workshop gave the field.

## Source

1. [Dartmouth](https://home.dartmouth.edu/about/artificial-intelligence-ai-coined-dartmouth)

## On the timeline

This event is one of 20 milestones on the [RSI timeline](https://enterrsi.si/timeline/), from 1950 to SI building SI.

The event

Date
:   June 18, 1956

Type
:   Timeline milestone

Related terms

[Super Intelligence (SI) **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/super-intelligence/)[Artificial general intelligence (AGI) **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/artificial-general-intelligence/)

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