When artificial intelligence meets common sense, frictions will arise

We introduce this book in three steps. Firstly, there is a history to the encounter between AI and common sense. Common sense was presented from the very beginning in the 1950s as a key challenge for AI. This asks for a clarification of how we can understand “common sense” and whether the operationalisation of common sense in designed AI is exhausting this semantic field. Secondly, we examine the usage of the term “common sense” as part of the English vocabulary. This shows four common uses, a deep ambiguity of the adjective “common”, which in many languages other than English requires two expressions, and a particular historical trajectory of the phase 'in English since the 18th century. Finally, we preview the chapters of this volume which are ordered into four sections examining the cycle of normalisation, assimilation and accommodation of AI and CS.