What you'd probably say, and what the field calls it. This vocabulary is unusually young, contested, and marketed — several terms mean different things depending on who's using them, and those are flagged.
“AI” names a research field, an industry, and a policy area at once. Naming which one you're in prevents most of the arguments where nobody is quite wrong.
The working vocabulary. The last two groups are the ones for public conversation — the genuinely contested words, and the ones most reliably misused.
The field runs almost entirely on initialisms, and new ones arrive monthly. Here are the ones in current circulation.