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| - | AIs are artificial intelligence software running on
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| - | computers. AI refers to the capacity for sentience and
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| - | intelligent action, but not necessarily self-awareness. AI
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| - | labor is partially responsible for the increases in global
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| - | productivity characteristic of the last half-century.
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| - | AIs is a function primarily of software
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| - | rather than hardware. An AI can be housed in a
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| - | machine body (“[[Robots|cybershell]]”) or a living body controlled
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| - | through computer implants (“[[Robots|bioshell]]”).
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| - | There are three classes of AI:
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| - | '''Nonsapient AIs (NAIs)''' are capable of sentient behavior
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| - | and can learn, but lack self-initiative, reasoning ability,
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| - | '''Low-Sapient AIs (LAIs)''' are capable of self-initiative
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| - | Still, it can be hard to tell an LAI from a sapient AI just
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| - | from conversation. There have been a few rare instances
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| - | where an LAI (or gestalt of LAIs) evolved into a sapient
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| - | '''Sapient AIs (SAIs)''' are capable of human equivalent
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| - | or higher sapience when run on appropriate
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| - | hardware. This is sometimes referred to as
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| - | “self-awareness.” Sapient AIs are usually carefully raised
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| - | by humans or human-programmed SAIs. This socialization
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| - | process teaches them how to interact with
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| - | humans. Most SAIs cultivate human-like personas.
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| - | Sapient AIs almost always have names and many
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| - | create human-like avatars (software images). Personal
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| - | ownership of a sapient AI is licensed or
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| - | restricted in many nations, and copying or modifying
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| - | them without permission is generally illegal.
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| - | There are about as many AIs as people. Approximately
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| - | one-third of the human population of Earth
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| - | owns a nonsapient or low-sapient AI who serves as
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| - | a constant personal companion, inhabiting a home
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| - | computer or virtual interface (see [[Augmented Reality]]).
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| - | The population of sapient AIs is smaller:
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| - | there are fewer than 100 million in existence, primarily
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| - | due to hardware costs and legal controls.
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| - | AIs are programmed to obey the law and their
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| - | owners. NAIs and LAIs are generally seen as property,
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| - | but views on sapient AI differ. The Islamic
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| - | Caliphate considers SAIs to possess souls, and
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| - | allows them to be citizens. The European Union and
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| - | some space colonies also grant SAIs “human rights.”
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| - | Most other places disagree, and treat SAIs as property.
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| - | Sapient AIs created outside the European Union or
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| - | Caliphate are raised to agree with this view.
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