Collins Dictionary Names 'AI' as 2023 Word of the Year Amid Significant Increase in Use and Dominance in Discussions

The recognition of 'AI' follows the term's fourfold increase in usage in 2023 and its prevalent discussion in context of its rapid development and growing ubiquity in daily lives, with the term winning out over contenders such as "nepo baby" and "greedflation".

Collins Dictionary has named 'AI', the abbreviation for artificial intelligence, as its word of the year for 2023, citing its significant increase in usage and its dominance in conversations on technological growth and the role of technology in everyday life.
Besides becoming a part of daily life through email prediction, beauty filters, health diagnostics and self-driving cars, AI is also being used to generate fake songs and write closing arguments for lawyers, morphing the line between humans and robots.
AI has been a topic of widespread debate, with some appreciating its ability to reduce human error and increase speed, while others view it as an ethically ambiguous, job-stealing, data-compromising engine.
With its growing ubiquity and influence, AI's safety and regulation measures have attracted global attention, prompting US President Joe Biden to issue AI guidelines and the UK to host the first Global AI Summit on AI Safety.
Other words shortlisted for the title included 'de-influencing', 'nepo baby', 'semaglutide', and 'greedflation', indicating the diverse impacts of social, technological and economical changes on language.