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title: "What has AI in Common with Philosophy?"
authors:
  - "John McCarthy"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/263"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0263.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "2041-2043"
track: "Panels"
keywords:
---

# What has AI in Common with Philosophy?

John McCarthy

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 2041-2043.

## Abstract

AI needs many ideas that have hitherto been studied only by philosophers. This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new forms when thought about in terms of how to design a robot. Some approaches to philosophy are helpful and others are not.