frame-problem-origin-mccarthy-hayes-1969

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The frame problem was defined by John McCarthy and Patrick Hayes in their 1969 paper 'Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence'.

Summary

This anchors the frame problem — the question of how a reasoning system knows what stays the same when one thing changes — to its original source: a 1969 paper by McCarthy and Hayes. It matters because it gives the system a fixed historical reference point, so that later claims about the problem can be traced back to that starting formulation rather than drifting into reinterpretation.