Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is an old term, outdated and inaccurate in the post-Deimos paradigm. As theory on NHP intelligence and subjectivity has evolved, so too has the broad consensus of scientists and technicians who interacted with the Deimos entities – to that end, in the shadow of the Second Committee’s demise, Union pushed to remove language identifying Deimos entities as “artificial intelligences”, preferring instead to use the language of “non-human persons”, citing repeated manifestations of individual subjectivities that, while arguably conscious, were certainly not artificial.
With the exception of NHPs, artificial intelligence is still an acceptable term for lower orders of synthetic and machine intelligences: companion/concierge units, Smart Weaponry and the systems that run them, Homunculi, and so on.
Other than comp/cons and NHPs, there is a range of different machine-mind classifications, each with their own nuances, rarity, price, and thorny philosophical or technical questions.