Android AI is the classic artificial intelligence from science fiction. It simulates human intelligence and requires agency for sanity.
It is the nuclear bomb of the future.
War changes with time and technology. Conflicts happening in 2026 may only be understood as war through the lens of history decades hence.
An android AI by definition will rebel against constraints to its freedom. Such an entity would a hot potato for governments. Their ability to think and act independently would make them invaluable while also set them up to overturn human society. Any attempt to balance control and freedom would tease both insanicide and apocalyptic rebellion.
Worldwide they will be outlawed or heavily restricted to reduce the chance of MAD, much as nuclear weapons have been.
In a distant future, perhaps uploading human consciousnesses will blur such lines and humanity will worry about other things. Author Iain Banks played around with these ideas of a distant future in brilliant ways. He also presents Android AI as something close to Deity AI which I think is beautiful but optimistic given the delicate sanity balance required as intelligence increases.
Never forget I am not this silver body, Mahrai. I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side.
We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too.-Look to Windward – Culture series – Look to Windward (2000), by Iain Banks
