Artificial Intelligence (AI), also known as Machine Intelligence, is a relatively new and growing technology that is intended to relieve humans of making decisions; much of the current work in AI is focussed on the analysis of complex (and massive) amounts of information, with a goal of processing the data faster and more accurately than is possible by a human. In effect, it is being developed to replace humans and their slow and error prone decision making process.

There is at least one instance where a discussion is occurring about the integration of AI capabilities into humans; the goal of that effort is to “achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence”. There is talk and work intended to augment human sensory abilities, where physical hardware is to be integrated into a human brain and nervous system. And there is also legal work that is seeking to provide legal standing to AI systems – in essence, treating as a sentient life form.

The initial work in the development of AI systems was focussed on the development of software that would form the decision making basis of the new technology.  Slowly, there has been a further integration of additional sensor types (mostly artificial vision and “hearing”), and the further refinement of the decision making process. In more recent developments, the efforts are aimed at using AI systems to develop software, including additional software for use in the AI systems.

So is Artificial Intelligence accounted for in the Life Construct? The short answer is “no”. Other societies, on other planets, have developed AI systems, with initial goals similar to those goals for this technology on Terra. The Libraries indicate that the results of technology implementation on these planets was rarely beneficial – it resulted in AI technology becoming dominant on the planet, and eventually seeing the life forms that developed it as a threat. The libraries indicate that this occurred due to errors in the initial programming of the AI systems (keeping in mind that AI systems would be unable to detect inherent errors in human brain processing over time); the Souls that did the initial work for these systems were prone to including unintentional software errors, and a misinterpretation of sensory input information.

The Life Construct intentionally did not make allowances for the inclusion of Artificial Intelligence systems within the Construct. The reasons for this are simple: AI systems are not capable of the incorporation of a Soul Energy; AI is incapable of interfacing with the Soul, at both the unconscious level and at the higher self; because AI is relatively unaware of all of the senses of humans (and the variations in these senses among others), it may have difficulty integrating the input; AI is incapable of intuitive thought, so it will miss results that are based on human intuition. The true purpose of Life is to provide a vehicle for a Soul to directly experience the work of the Life Construct, as well as the development work of the other Constructs. Since AI systems are, by definition, artificial, they are not capable of supporting the incorporation of a Soul, which is the definition of “Life”. 

So how did the Souls from the Central Sun address the issue of AI in the past? It was allowed to run its course, mainly to serve as a learning lesson for those societies that allowed it to exist in the form it had evolved into. When the AI systems had become dominant in the Society, The Leadership of the Central Sun began working closely with the Leadership of the Universe that the systems were in, and in each case an extinction level event occurred, which also eliminated  all AI systems. AI systems are antithetical to the Life Construct, as well as the other Constructs to the degree that AI may be integrated with them. Although the lessons of incorporating or relying on AI systems are an important learning experience, they have become somewhat dangerous to Life.