Translations:Codex: AI Systems/7/en

There is much debate over whether or not to officially classify A.I.-Ds as ‘people’. While their sapience is indisputable by any conventional method, the coldness of their programming is unsettling both in interaction and from a legal standpoint. A designed intelligence without rigid restraints and safeguards in place upon its programming can be a truly terrifying monster, as the Carissia Cruiseliners incident at the start of the 13th Planet Rush attests. At the very least, all designed intelligences must be created with Asimov's laws firmly in place to avoid danger to themselves and those around them.