Artificial intelligence

B-Class

Wikipedia edit history · Last edited Sep 25, 2026

12,935

Total Edits

5,091

Unique Editors

10/10

Activity signal

2001

Created

3,390

Watchers

28%

Minor Edits

505K

Monthly Views

20

Edits (90d)

Revision window and sources

Partial coverage

This report displays 500 retrieved recent revisions — about 4% of the reported 12,935 edits. It cannot establish why a change was made, whether it is correct, or what happened outside this window.

Retrieved for this report: Oct 6, 2026, 12:04 PM UTC. Totals and pageviews are source-provided; the activity signal and section list are derived from the retrieved window.

What this edit history shows

The Wikipedia article on Artificial intelligence has been edited 12,935 times since it was created in 2001, by 5,091 distinct accounts and IP addresses. That averages about 518 recorded changes a year, or several every day, which puts it among the more actively maintained pages on the encyclopedia.

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, the ten busiest contributors account for about 44% of the changes, with the rest spread across a long tail of occasional editors. That is a fairly typical mix of regular maintainers and passing corrections. In the same window, about 6% of the retrieved revisions came from bot accounts, which handle routine work such as link repair and reference formatting.

Within the retrieved window, 2026 carries the most recorded activity, with 391 changes. The page is currently busy: 172 of those revisions fall in the last 90 days. The most recent recorded edit was 10 days ago.

Readership has been broadly stable across the last two years of pageview data. The clearest peak in that record falls in March 2026. Traffic spikes and editing spikes often line up, but the revision record alone cannot tell you which one caused the other, or whether an outside event drove both.

This report is built from the 500 most recent revisions retrieved from Wikipedia, about 4% of the 12,935 recorded edits. Figures drawn from that window describe the window only, and the report cannot establish why a change was made or whether it was correct. For older revisions, talk-page discussion and full context, follow the source history on Wikipedia.

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Most Edited Sections

Sections appearing most in edit summaries.

Substitution for human–human interactionPower needs and environmental impactsDeep learningExistential riskTechnological unemployment

Recent Changeslast 90 days

BelburyReverted 1 edit by [[Special:Contributions/Selena Rhodes|Selena Rhodes]] ([[User talk:Selena Rhodes|talk]]): Premature to call this official, per the two cited "wants to", "will it work?" headlines
Sep 25, 2026
Selena Rhodesno summary
Sep 25, 2026
WillondonUndid 2 revisions from [[Special:Diff/1376574506|1376574506]] until [[Special:Diff/1376574601|1376574601]]; no reliable source for this
Sep 25, 2026
Selena Rhodesno summary
Sep 25, 2026
Selena Rhodesno summary
Sep 25, 2026
ApLundellReverting spam from an obviously marketing-only account.
Sep 23, 2026
Viytc471Added sourced information on Ai-Da as an AI/robotic artist that embodies the machine-conciousness question
Sep 23, 2026
GrayfellSee talk. This was grammatically a mess, redundant, and still included editorializing.
Sep 23, 2026
Grayfell"surprisingly frank"??? Neutrally summarize reliable, independent sources without emotive editorializing. Social media posts are not reliable sources.
Sep 23, 2026
Alenoachremoved the subsection (the long quote was from the previously-removed AI-generated pre-print, not from the MIT study; and the proposed definition of cognitive surrender is inaccurate)
Sep 23, 2026
Alenoachremoved a source (it's a [[WP:PREPRINT|preprint]], and ironically an AI-generated one)
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikael/* Existential risk */
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikael/* Existential risk */
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikaelAdded note on the Anthropic storyline from this month concerning the near term existential threat horizon presented by AI.
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikaeladded citations
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikaelAll edits polishing the sub-section on 'Cognitive surrender'
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikael/* Substitution for human–human interaction */
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikael/* Substitution for human–human interaction */
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikael/* Substitution for human–human interaction */
Sep 23, 2026
ThomasMikael/* Substitution for human–human interaction */
Sep 23, 2026

Common questions about Artificial intelligence on Wikipedia

How many times has the Wikipedia article on Artificial intelligence been edited?

Wikipedia records 12,935 edits to Artificial intelligence since the article was created in 2001. Those edits come from 5,091 distinct registered accounts and IP addresses.

Who edits the Wikipedia article on Artificial intelligence the most?

In the 500 revisions retrieved for this report, the most frequent contributor is Alenoach, with 64 edits. A high edit count reflects recorded activity in this window only; it does not imply ownership of the article or that the edits were accepted unchanged.

When was the Wikipedia article on Artificial intelligence created?

The earliest revision Wikipedia reports for Artificial intelligence is dated October 8, 2001, making the article about 25 years old.

When was the Wikipedia article on Artificial intelligence edited most heavily?

Within the revisions retrieved for this report, 2026 holds the most recorded changes, at 391. Because the report covers a retrieved window rather than the entire history, an earlier year outside that window could have been busier.

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