# Enkuklios

> An encyclopedia of artificial intelligence: its history, technology, and philosophical and social dimensions. Written for people and machines.

The links below provide plain Markdown without navigation or page decoration. Follow the topic index for individual articles rather than downloading the whole site.

This is a secondary reference. Consult articles' sources for primary evidence and check dates, especially for recent developments; these pages are not a live news feed.

## Starting points

- [History of AI](https://enkuklios.com/history.md): Chronological overview, from early foundations to generative AI.
- [Hardware and software](https://enkuklios.com/hardware-software.md): Compute, architectures, algorithms, training, inference, and tools.
- [Mind and society](https://enkuklios.com/philosophy.md): Philosophy, psychology, ethics, and social implications.
- [Recent topics](https://enkuklios.com/recent.md): Developments and debates, with links to more specific articles.
- [Glossary](https://enkuklios.com/glossary.md): Definitions of AI terminology.
- [Timeline](https://enkuklios.com/timeline.md): A compact chronology of milestones.

## Find a specific topic

- [Topic index](https://enkuklios.com/sub/index.md): Browse individual articles grouped by subject.
- [AI and society](https://enkuklios.com/sub/ai-society.md): Applications, institutions, public policy, and social effects.
- [Frontier AI](https://enkuklios.com/sub/frontier-ai.md): Models, capabilities, research directions, and open questions.

## Formats and discovery

Markdown links are relative to the containing file. Some older links use paths relative to the site root; retry there if a relative target is missing.

For the corresponding HTML page, replace a Markdown URL's .md extension with no extension. An index.md maps to its directory URL (for example, /sub/index.md becomes /sub/). HTML articles also advertise their Markdown source with rel="alternate" and type="text/markdown".

- [Sitemap](https://enkuklios.com/sitemap.xml): Complete list of indexable HTML pages.
- [Article directory](https://enkuklios.com/articles): Browsable directory with browser-side full-text search.