At which 1956 workshop was the term “artificial intelligence” formally introduced as a field name?

The Dartmouth workshop introduced “artificial intelligence” as a formal field name in 1956.

The event was officially called the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. John McCarthy organized it with Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. The proposal argued that learning and other features of intelligence could, in principle, be described precisely enough for machines to simulate them.

The workshop took place at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, during the summer of 1956. Researchers discussed language simulation, neural networks, game playing, and machine reasoning. The meeting is commonly treated as the birth of artificial intelligence as an academic research field, although earlier work in computing, cybernetics, mathematical logic, and information theory strongly influenced it. The name did not mean that all later AI methods were invented at Dartmouth; rather, the workshop helped establish a shared research identity and agenda.