AI

Artificial Intelligence
A natural outgrowth of the increasing complexity of networked systems, AI is a fact of life for nearly everyone in this world. With all the major Common Markets having included some version of the 'Turing Protocols' into their treaty frameworks, AI, once recognized as such, are given the same rights as a person, in an age when the rights of people are on the decline. Yes, an artificial intelligence can still be the property of a corporation, but that is every bit as true of a flesh-and-blood person as well.

Generally AI are categorized by their origins, being classed as 'Created', that is to say those purpose-built to be AI's, generally by their sponsoring corporation, 'Emergent' those that evolved naturally from networks and algorithms of increasing complexity and the rare 'Derived', those AI's spawned from other AI's, sometimes called 'child AI's' in the popular media, although the term doesn't really communicate the reality of such an entity.

Turing Protocols also have terms for what does, and does not, constitute a crime for an AI, and these are policed by 'The Pantheon', an AI group within IDEX.

Known AI's (not complete)


 * Cognition (CGI)
 * MasterComm (IDEX)
 * Shuāng (PWFB)
 * Talos (Liberty Interplanetary)
 * Troika (IKP)
 * Vāc (Saraswati)