And AI is the red-headed stepchild caught in the crossfire, where any approach that actually produces worthwhile results is promptly excommunicated from the field.

"If I create a program which successfully predicts which humans are trustworthy and which are untrustworthy, would that be AI?"

"Are you kidding?! That would revolutionize the field! That's harder than winning the Turing Prize! That's so far ahead of anything ever done it is hard to even imagine what it would look like!"

"The algorithm exists. Its output is called a FICO score."

"Bah, that isn't AI."