September 5, 2025
Learning AI Terminology, Made Simple for Election Administrators
When I started to use and learn about artificial intelligence tools, one thing I noticed is that I almost always felt like I was operating from a deficit when it came to my available vocabulary of AI terms.
I’d reach for words or phrases when discussing AI – and I’d come up blank.
All of this made me think: What’s the best way to learn words and phrases? For me, growing up, it was always creating flashcards. State capitals, science terms, and on and on. As an election administrator, I made flashcards to quickly learn the names and locations of all the polling locations in my county.
(For what it’s worth, I’ve even remembered some of the things I learned by using flashcards. Capital of Kentucky? Frankfort. Purpose of mitochondria? … Okay, well, maybe not many of the science terms.)
No matter whether you’ve implemented AI into your daily workflow or you are taking a more skeptical approach to the technology, I think it’s very helpful to have a basic understanding of the words and phrases that are being used.
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