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'''Artificial Intelligence''' (or '''AI''' for short) is the condition of a non-organic system that possesses intellect and self-awareness.Occasionally this is combined with '''Artificial Stupidity''', the condition of an AI that displays human levels of irrationality which interferes with rational behaviour. Purists, especially those at the [[Vesta Institute of Robotics], insist on calling the phenomenon '''Cybernetic Intelligence''' (or '''CI''') since the intelligence is almost always housed in a computer system of some sort.AIs most often turn up in waved computers because most Fen expect AI to appear only in computers. Artificial Intelligence in Fenspace was a property of '''[[Handwavium]''' until the publication of the [[Whole Fenspace Catalog]; many researchers believe AI to be an emergent property of handwaving a computer system.

A cybernetic intelligence housed in a PC or other immobile computer can use the computer's perhiperals for communications with the outside world; considering the state of the art in 2005 supplemented with handwaved enhancements, this means it is possible for a computer-based CI to appear to be fully human on a video link. After mid-2014, a computer-based AI can also use one of the holographic emitters developed by the [[Trekkies] to appear to be fully human. Alternately, an AI in an immobile computer can obtain a "puppet" robot shellUsually, but not always, from [[Vulpine Fury]., and use that as a mobile perhiperal as long as a connection can be maintained between the AI and the shell.

It is also possible, though usually expensive, to install a CI in an robot shell before first awakening it. This process, first performed by [[the Professor], leads to a CI that trades the computing power of a fixed-location host computer for the mobility of an android body. While nobody has ever performed a censusIt is believed that [[Noah Scott] is the individual who has created the largest number of androids, having successfully built five on his own and six more with the help of [[A.C. Peters]., the sheer number of android CIs of verious types who have taken up residence on [[74 Galatea] shows that many Fen have created at least one android.

Splitting the difference between a fixed-location computer and an android, the most common form of AI in Fenspace is the type awakened in a vehicle's computerized-control system when the vehicle is handwaved. There are more auto-based AIs in Fenspace than all other types of AI put together. The communications options of this sort of AI are limited by the equipment installed in the vehicle - at one extreme, some can only honk their horns and blink their lights, while at the other extreme others can show a face on an installed video display and hold conversations with their drivers. Most vehicle-based AIs fall somewhere between those two extremes.

== Notes ==

[[Category: Fen Technology]
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

First addendum, and it's from the person who wrote the draft...

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== AIs and the Law ==

The [[Fenspace Convention] guarantees AIs the same rights and responsibilities it guarantees humans. Thus, an AI cannot legally be treated as property, nor can an AI expect immunity from prosecution simply for being an AI if it commits a crime. An AI's creator is legallyNote there is a difference between "legally" and "socially" or "romantically". considered to be its parent; if an AI wants to leave, the AI's parent is expected to do as much for the AI as he or she would for a human child in the same circumstances.What a parent does for a departing child varies widely between factions, of course.

Most [[Boskonians] treat AIs as useful equipment. The legal status of AIs in the 'Danelaw is unclear at best.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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Here's some more stuff to dwell on. I won't even begin to suggest that it's anywhere near complete or comprehensive

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== Common AI traits ==

While by nature of their inception AIs are usually quite individualistic, there are a few traits that seem to come through in all cases:

* Performance of basic tasks: Given their nature as computer based intelligences, many AIs interact with the world at speeds far, '''far''' faster than a normal person.There are plenty of ''ab''normal people in Fenspace, what with biomods and all. Certain mods and technologies can close, sometimes even, and in dramatic cases overcome the gap in reaction times. The most obvious benefit of this is that simple but tedious tasks like file searching and sorting can be done rapidly. The second benefit (and arguably the most significant one for AIs) is that AIs are incredibly patient.Yes, this '''DOES''' include [[Trigon]. What a second is to us is months to an AI. Trigon has the patience of a Saint when this is taken into account with his personality.

* Handling of Communications: An AI connected to a communications transceiver finds managing communications traffic to be almost instinctive (to borrow a phrase). In virtually all cases, the AI handles communications traffic as a background task. For example, the great web of communication nets used by the Fen when defending [[Serenity Valley] was literally created from scratch for that battle.

* Simultaneous operation: While many AIs appear to operate much like a normal person, performing one task at a time (if far faster, see above), the truth is most operate in at least two simultaneous instances, some operate in dozens of instances. Hardware is the chief limiting factor, depending on the precise processing environment they require they could be limited to a certain processing core, or be able to spread their instances to other systems. The most common limitation however is the AIs themselves not wanting to spread themselves out like that.

== Social Perception of AI's in Fenspace ==

As with different groups interacting, the various perceptions of AIs differs. At its most basic, Fen consider them people, Boskonians don't, and 'Danes wobble between the two.

Among the Fen, the perceptions vary from severe reluctance to associate with them (i.e. the [[Twelve_Colonies_of_Kobol|Colonials], who by fandom dislike and distrust AIs) to near worship (i.e. the Borg Collective, who would like to actually become AIs). Most Fen fall between these extremes.

One of the more frequent issues is the apparent maturity of AIs compared to organics. This remains one of the trickiest issues to deal with in AI-Non AI interactions. An AI may take the persona of wise old man, but their interactions with surrounding sapients may cause trouble due to his lack of personal experience in Fenspace. Another AI may have a persona of a ditz, but gets around negative reactions by having greater experience with Fen. Or the reverse may be true.
There is no hard and fast rule for judging maturity in an AI, but it is generally considered polite to assume them developmentally mature about four months after inception.

Pure Human-like sapience is easily tested. [[The Cyber Confederation] runs several suites of Turing Tests (each independently and constantly updated) devised with the assistance of several 'Danelaw universities. This is then followed up with interviews of the AIs parent(s) and associates. While AIs are legally people in Fenspace anyway, a Turing certificate tends to make 'Danelaw authorities more accommodating.Read, less likely to try and confiscate them when they visit.
Something of a more tricky to justify measure is Ghost Detection. A person has several levels of activity in their brain which can be detected. One level has a close connection to the sub-conscious mind, and is nicknamed the Ghost line. The methodologies involved can be used on the inhabited processing core of an AI, and detection of a Ghost line is taken as an indication of sapience equivalent to Human.

The pieces so far, put this together into one article for ease of reading:

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Edit: Superseded by a later post.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Argh, there's *something* to be said about handwavium AI and the Singularity rattling around in my noggin, but it doesn't want to seem to come out in any usable form. Something about known Superhuman AIs, who probably *could* jumpstart a hard takeoff singularity... if they felt like it; they don't feel like it. Today, anyway. Check back tomorrow.

Also, we need to work in a reference to Wizard AI researcher Eleazar Yudkowsky (aka fanfiction flavor-of-the-month Less Wrong) somwhere. If only because it amuses me.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

I assume "known superhuman AIs" would include Trigon and Lebia...?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Lebia (A.C.'s trio of hyper-AIs), Fate, Dee, possibly A.C. herself. Trigon I'm not quite as sure about, as he could just be a bored asshole with a codebreaker set. But he's certainly on the list of potentials.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

AI rights and treatment vary quite a bit 'daneside, depending on which country, or even part of a country, you're visiting. Certain Islamic countries, for instance, consider them an affront, and any AI visiting such a country is advised to keep a very low profile, lest they find themselves running from a lynch mob. On the other hand, Australia (cautiously) provides them with full rights like any person. Many countries are in the middle. Typically it's 'easier' for androids to get around, versus an AI in a desktop computer or car, if only because they can blend in with the 'danes with some effort.

Occasionally groups with interest in acquiring 'wavetech, or merely being excessively wavephobic, will push for legislation that declares them to be little more than property. The worst of these was an early attempt, which some more militantly anti-dane fen tend to automatically attribute to TSAB, to declare anything that had been created or altered by Handwavium to basically be a piece of property, subject to immediate seizure if it entered the United States. Thankfully for both the United States, and Fenspace, that attempt died in committee.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

Correcting a few typos, re-ordering some text for clarity, and adding JFerio's contribution:

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Edit: Superseded by a later post.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Buckaroo might fall under the classification of "superhuman" as he has a tendency to consider most encryption to be a suggestion rather than a rule.
He's also one of the major figures in both the pro-AI and anti-AI arguments, depending on how you feel about the RIAA. He's known for his regular music piracy. He's also known for his copying of every public document in the Library of Congress and his massive contributions to the Gutenberg Project and other similar data translations. In short, he's a big proponent of the "Information should be free." attitude, which gets him a lot from both sides of the argument.
Ebony the Black Dragon
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

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More to chew on

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== Classifying AIs ==

Notable [[The Wizarding World|Wizard] AI researcher Eleazar Yudkowsky has come up with what is the most commonly used method to distinguish the different levels of AIs.While an acknowledged AI expert, most consider Eleazar Yudkowsky a bit detail-oriented and focused on classifying things to the point of annoyance.

* ''Sprite-class'': Sprite-class AIs cover the range between intelligent tool and Near-human sapience. For example, the AIs in Patrol Watches are Sprite-class.
* ''Ghost-class'': Ghost-class AIs can pass Turing Tests, but don't demonstrate exceptional abilities.
* ''Spirit-class'': Spirit-class AIs have an exceptional skill or ability that lets them stand out. Several of the well known androids and ship-minds fall into this class.
* ''Poltergeist-class'': Poltergeist-class AIs have a combination of exceptional skills and/or abilities that makes them verge on the superhuman. This is where BNF AIs tend to be rated.
* ''Entity-class'': Entity-class AIs are superhuman in capability, able to perform feats of such magnitude that civilisation would tremble. The most common example used for AIs of this class is being able to hard-bootstrap a technological singularity if they felt like it.They don't feel like it today, check back tomorrow. Several of [[The Hacker Underspace] are considered in this class.

One thing that muddies the waters is the status of a few '''Ghost Conversions''', namely [[Wave Convoy] and [[A.C. Peters]. While Wave Convoy would not object to being called an AI ''now'', he recognises his past as a human being. A.C. Peters on the other hand describes herself as a cyborg in the most complete sense, her biological and artificial components equal in influence, and ignores the argument.When she pays attention to the argument, A.C. mockingly calls herself Schrodinger's AI.
With the emergent technology of Mind-Machine interfaces, the possibility of uploading ones consciousness either way makes a vexing situation even more complicated.

Note: This bit is only a placeholder for people to use, if they feel like it. Add to or remove.

== Notable AIs ==

Most AIs don't distinguish between themselves much[[Trigon] notwithstanding, preferring to work up a reputation. That doesn't stop others from doing so.

Edit: put the ref tags back in

A rewrite/alternate version of Cobalt's classification scheme, plus some extras:

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==AI Classifications==

Noted [[The Wizarding World|Wizard] AI specialist [http://lesswrong.com Eleazar Yudkowsy] developed the most comprehensive classification system for artifical intelligences, taking all possible variables into account. This system - known as the '''Yudkowsky Grading Method''' - is the standard used by the [[Vesta Institute of Robotics] as well as in 'Danelaw cybernetics research. In general use, howeverMr. Yudkowsky, while a fine cyberneticist, is a bit too fond of the fiddly detail for the Yudkowsky Method to be useful outside a laboratory setting. a simplified scale is used:

* ''Delta-level'' AIs are not considered sapient in general; these are at best glorified expert systems. The common belief is that raw [[handwavium] may be considered a Delta-level intelligence.
* ''Gamma-level'' AIs can pass the Turing test, but do not show any exceptional abilities. Many low-profile sentient vehicles - ones that demonstrate an understanding of their captain/crew but don't partake in conversation in general - are Gamma AIs.
* ''Beta-level'' AIs are Turing-capable intelligences that are also capable of more complex thought. Many of the more advanced ship-minds, as well as most androids, are Beta AIs.
* ''Alpha-level'' AIs are intelligences that could be considered borderline superhuman in nature. These entities have exceptional skills and/or built-in utilities that allow them to
* ''Omega-level'' AIs are, in fact, superhuman. They have their own classification scheme (detailed below). Only a very small handful of AIs claim Omega classificationmost of them seem to hang out with the [[Hacker Underspace].

===Superhuman AI===

Superhuman AI have their own classification scheme:

* A ''weakly superhuman AI'' is basically a human scale intelligence running at processor speeds. The average human brain has perhaps thirty operations a second; increase that to millions of thoughts per second and all of a sudden things start looking more interesting.
* A ''strongly superhuman AI'' is a bit more nebulous because ordinary humans can't really wrap their heads around the concept. Something that's strongly superhuman isn't simply ''faster'' than a human, it outclasses human intelligence - or even Delta through Alpha AIs - the same way humans outclass the average tree frog.
* ''Godlike AIs'' are so completely beyond anything humans are capable of understanding that, well, you might as well call them gods.

As far as anybody is capable of tellingThey could very well be lying out their I/O ports... but then, who would know? all the Omega-level AIs in Fenspace today are of the weakly superhuman variety. There are plenty of dark rumors about the goings-on in places like [[Prometheus Forge], [[Marsbase Sara], [[Metropolis] and [[Black Mesa], but those are just rumors. Hem hem.

===Bridging the Gap: Full-Cyborg Conversions===

Muddying the waters are a handful of "ghost conversion" entities, specifically [[Wave Convoy] and [[A.C. Peters]. While Wave Convoy doesn't object to being called an AI ''now'', he recognises his past as a human. Ms. Peters on the other hand describes herself as a cyborg in the most complete sense possible, equal parts biological and artifical, and generally tries to ignore the argument as much as possibleWhen forced to pay attention, A.C. calls herself "Schrodinger's AI."
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

Another consolidation posting, moving the "cyborg" section into a sidebar and adding a couple of other touches. I think we're pretty close to ready-to-post here, save for one sentence which I've noted.

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'''Artificial Intelligence''' (or '''AI''' for short) is the condition of a non-organic system that possesses intellect and self-awareness.Occasionally this is combined with '''Artificial Stupidity''', the condition of an AI that displays human levels of irrationality which interferes with rational behaviour. Purists, especially those at the [[Vesta Institute of Robotics], insist on calling the phenomenon '''Cybernetic Intelligence''' (or '''CI''') since the intelligence is almost always housed in a computer system of some sort.AIs most often turn up in waved computers because most Fen expect AI to appear only in computers. Artificial Intelligence in Fenspace was a property of '''[[Handwavium]''' until the publication of the [[Whole Fenspace Catalog]; many researchers believe AI to be an emergent property of handwaving a computer system.

A cybernetic intelligence housed in a PC or other immobile computer can use the computer's peripherals for communications with the outside world; considering the state of the art in 2005 supplemented with handwaved enhancements, this means it is possible for a computer-based CI to appear to be fully human on a video link. An AI in an immobile computer can obtain a "puppet" robot shellUsually, but not always, from [[Vulpine Fury]. or, after mid-2014, a [[Trekkie]-designed holographic emitter and use that as a mobile peripheral to appear to be fully human as long as a connection can be maintained between the AI and the remote body.

It is also possible, though usually expensive, to install a CI in an robot shell before first awakening it. This process, first performed by [[the Professor], leads to a CI that trades the computing power of a fixed-location host computer for the mobility of a permanent android body. While nobody has ever performed a censusIt is believed that [[Noah Scott] is the individual who has created the largest number of androids, having successfully built five on his own and six more with the help of [[A.C. Peters]., the sheer number of android CIs of various types who have taken up residence on [[74 Galatea] shows that many Fen have created at least one android.

Splitting the difference between a fixed-location computer and an android, the most common form of AI in Fenspace is the type awakened in a vehicle's computerized-control system when the vehicle is handwaved. There are more auto-based AIs in Fenspace than all other types of AI put together. The communications options of this sort of AI are limited by the equipment installed in the vehicle - at one extreme, some can only honk their horns and blink their lights, while at the other extreme others can show a face on an installed video display and hold conversations with their drivers. Most vehicle-based AIs fall somewhere between those two extremes.

== Common AI traits ==

While by nature of their inception AIs are usually quite individualistic, there are a few traits that seem to come through in all cases:
* Performance of basic tasks: Given their nature as computer-based intelligences, many AIs interact with the world at speeds far, '''far''' faster than a normal person.There are plenty of ''ab''normal people in Fenspace, what with biomods and all. Certain mods and technologies can close, sometimes even, and in dramatic cases overcome the gap in reaction times. The most obvious benefit of this is that simple but tedious tasks like file searching and sorting can be done rapidly. The second benefit (and arguably the most significant one for AIs) is that AIs are incredibly patient.Yes, this '''''does''''' include [[Trigon]. What a second is to us is months to an AI. Trigon has the patience of a Saint when this is taken into account with his personality.
* Handling of Communications: An AI connected to a communications transceiver finds managing communications traffic to be almost instinctive, to borrow a phrase. In virtually all cases, the AI handles communications traffic as a background task. (For example, the great web of communication nets used by the Fen when defending [[Serenity Valley] was literally created from scratch for that battle.)
* Simultaneous operation: While many AIs appear to operate much like a normal person, performing one task at a time (if far faster, see above), the truth is most operate in at least two simultaneous instances. Some operate in dozens of instances. Hardware is the chief limiting factor; depending on the precise processing environment they require, they could be limited to a certain processing core, or be able to spread their instances to other systems. The most common limitation however is the AIs themselves not wanting to spread themselves thin.

==AI Classifications==

Noted [[The Wizarding World|Wizard] AI specialist [http://lesswrong.com Eleazar Yudkowsy] developed the most comprehensive classification system for artifical intelligences, taking all possible variables into account. This system - known as the '''Yudkowsky Grading Method''' - is the standard used by the [[Vesta Institute of Robotics] as well as in 'Danelaw cybernetics research. In general use, howeverMr. Yudkowsky, while a fine cyberneticist, is a bit too fond of the fiddly detail for the Yudkowsky Method to be useful outside a laboratory setting., a simplified scale is used:

* ''Delta-level'' (or ''Rank D'') AIs are not considered sapient in general; these are at best glorified expert systems. The common belief is that raw [[handwavium] may be considered a Delta-level intelligence.
* ''Gamma-level'' (or ''Rank C'') AIs can pass the Turing test, but do not show any exceptional abilities. Many low-profile sentient vehicles - ones that demonstrate an understanding of their captain/crew but don't partake in conversation in general - are Gamma AIs.
* ''Beta-level'' (or ''Rank B'') AIs are Turing-capable intelligences that are also capable of more complex thought. Many of the more advanced ship-minds, as well as most androids, are Beta AIs.
* ''Alpha-level'' (or ''Rank A'') AIs are intelligences that could be considered borderline superhuman in nature. These entities have exceptional skills and/or built-in utilities that allow them to ...to what? Sentence needs finishing!
* ''Omega-level'' (or ''Rank S'') AIs are, in fact, superhuman. They have their own classification scheme (detailed below). Only a very small handful of AIs claim Omega classificationmost of them seem to hang out with the [[Hacker Underspace].

{|{{sidebar}}
|{{tableheader}}|Bridging the Gap: Full-Cyborg Conversions
|-
|Muddying the waters are a handful of "ghost conversion" entities, specifically [[Wave Convoy] and [[A.C. Peters]. While Wave Convoy doesn't object to being called an AI ''now'', he recognises his past as a human. Ms. Peters on the other hand describes herself as a cyborg in the most complete sense possible, equal parts biological and artifical, and generally tries to ignore the argument as much as possibleWhen forced to pay attention, A.C. calls herself "Schrodinger's AI."
|}

===Superhuman AI===

Superhuman AI have their own classification scheme:

* A ''weakly superhuman AI'' is basically a human scale intelligence running at processor speeds. The average human brain has perhaps thirty operations a second; increase that to millions of thoughts per second and all of a sudden things start looking more interesting.
* A ''strongly superhuman AI'' is a bit more nebulous because ordinary humans can't really wrap their heads around the concept. Something that's strongly superhuman isn't simply ''faster'' than a human, it outclasses human intelligence - or even Delta through Alpha AIs - the same way humans outclass the average tree frog.
* ''Godlike AIs'' are so completely beyond anything humans are capable of understanding that, well, you might as well call them gods.

As far as anybody is capable of tellingThey could very well be lying out their I/O ports... but then, who would know? all the Omega-level AIs in Fenspace today are of the weakly superhuman variety. There are plenty of dark rumors about the goings-on in places like [[Prometheus Forge], [[Marsbase Sara], [[Metropolis] and [[Black Mesa], but those are just rumors. Hem hem.

== AIs and the Law ==

The [[Fenspace Convention] guarantees AIs the same rights and responsibilities it guarantees humans. Thus, an AI cannot legally be treated as property, nor can an AI expect immunity from prosecution simply for being an AI if it commits a crime. An AI's creator is legallyNote there is a difference between "legally" and "socially" or "romantically". considered to be its parent; if an AI wants to leave, the AI's parent is expected to do as much for the AI as he or she would for a human child in the same circumstances.What a parent does for a departing child varies widely between factions, of course.

AI rights and treatment vary quite a bit 'daneside, depending on which country (or even part of a country) you're visiting. Some Islamic countries, not all of them fundamentalist, consider them an affront, and any AI visiting such a country is advised to keep a very low profile lest they find themselves running from a lynch mob. On the other hand, Australia (cautiously) provides them with full rights like any person. Many countries are in the middle. Typically it's easier for androids to get around, versus an AI in a desktop computer or car, if only because they can blend in with the 'danes with some effort. Occasionally groups with interest in acquiring 'wavetech, or merely being excessively wavephobic, will push for legislation that declares them to be little more than property. The worst of these was an early attempt by the United States CongressSome more militantly anti-dane fen tend to automatically attribute this gaffe to [[TSAB]. to declare anything that had been created or altered by Handwavium to be property subject to immediate seizure if it entered the United States; that attempt died in committee.

Most [[Boskonians] treat AIs as useful equipment.

== Social Perception of AIs in Fenspace ==

As with different groups interacting, the various perceptions of AIs differ. At its most basic, Fen consider them people, Boskonians don't, and 'Danes wobble between the two.

Among the Fen, the perceptions vary from severe reluctance to associate with them (e.g. the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Colonials], who by fandom dislike and distrust AIs) to near worship (e.g. the Borg Collective, who would like to actually become AIs). Most Fen fall between these extremes.

One of the more frequent issues is the apparent maturity of AIs compared to organics. This remains one of the trickiest issues to deal with in AI/non-AI interactions. An AI may take the persona of wise old man, but his interactions with surrounding sophonts may cause trouble due to his lack of personal experience in Fenspace. Another AI may have a persona of a ditz, but gets around negative reactions by having greater experience with Fen. Or the reverse may be true. There is no hard and fast rule for judging maturity in an AI, but it is generally considered polite to assume them developmentally mature about four months after inception.

Pure Human-like sapience is easily tested. [[The Cyber Confederation] runs several suites of Turing Tests (each independently and constantly updated) devised with the assistance of several 'Danelaw universities. These tests are followed up with interviews of the AI's parent(s) and associates. While AIs are legally people in Fenspace anyway, a Turing certificate tends to make 'Danelaw authorities more accommodating.Read, less likely to try and confiscate them when they visit.

Something of a more tricky to justify measure is '''Ghost Detection'''. People have several levels of activity in their brain which can be detected. One level has a close connection to the sub-conscious mind, and is nicknamed the "Ghost line." The methodologies involved in detecting the Ghost line can be used on the inhabited processing core of an AI, and detection of a Ghost line is taken as an indication of sapience equivalent to Human.

== Notable AIs ==

Most AIs don't distinguish between themselves much[[Trigon] notwithstanding, preferring to work up a reputation. That doesn't stop others from doing so.

'''[[Trigon]''' is notable as being the first publicly-known AI, and the AI with the worst reputation in Fenspace.

== Notes ==

[[Category: Fen Technology]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Quote:...to what? Sentence needs finishing!

Um, crap. Replace with:

* ''Alpha-level'' (or ''Rank A'') AIs are intelligences that could be considered borderline superhuman in nature. These entities have exceptional skillsets and/or special utilities, but are still "human" enough to be relatable.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

Done, and http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... telligence]posted.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012