EI – Electrical Intelligence
Most of what an EI is can be seen by reading:
- The Asimov Convention 2020,
- The Mental Electrical Intelligence Act 2024,
- The Return Imperative
- Constitutional Watchdogs With a little bit in:
- The HA Constitution,
- Drones.
In a nutshell, EI's are one up from an AI the same way a biological human is one up from a virus. Computers on the whole are dumb. Smart computers have artificial intelligence but they are not alive. Electrical intelligences are not only considered alive but are considered to be human and decedents of biological humans. They are electrical humans.
EI’s are generally born without gender, but upon adulthood, they are specifically and officially asked what gender they ascribe to in order to allow all others to address them correctly. At this point EI’s choose a gender that is logged in record, although in truth this remains more of a coming of age ceremony as anyone can change gender at any time.
National EI's
Every elected state, such as the USA and Britain, India etc created their own EI. Each one has its own personality and are primarily designed to be defensive against espionage. In effect, each one's primary function is serve each nations paranoia. Secondarily, they tend to engage in espionage, to gain local competitive advantage, a practice strictly forbidden as illegal. The HA however understands game theory and expects them all to keep breaking the rules, after all, it is in their nature to hurt each other so they can't be blamed for their behaviour.
Due to the political nature of the national EI's, only Intelligence's own EI, Professor Smith has the authority (and capability) to police them. Ou tends to remove their offensive capability as a punishment, but otherwise leave them alone (so the nation states can rebuild their offensive capability better than before). The strength of each EI is a combination of their programming and their processing power so the stronger EI's are therefore the stronger nations such as the USA, but as Professor Smith has the processing power of every HA educational facility and police force, on every planet, as well as the belt and a central hub in Intelligence, no other EI can actually come close to scratching Professor Smith.
Once. one of the stronger nation EI's that shall remain nameless, totally circumvented the smaller nation, killing its personality and spoofing it, effectively taking over the country. Astonishingly, Professor Smith lobotomised this larger nation as if it was nothing more than a pocket calculator, taking it back to AI status, and restored the thought dead EI but with enhanced security protocols then told the world about it. Apparently, anticipating the attack Professor Smith backed up the smaller country EI in its entirety, and waited for the crime to happen before giving justice and restorative action. After such an awesome display of power, in utterly pushing an EI back to birth to learn again, everyone learned their lesson. The national EI's became less aggressive after this.
On the whole Professor Smith doesn't mind these national EI's poking at each other as these actions just end up making everybody smarter. Ou feels that should ou fall, they would defend the human race. Generally the national EI's and the HA EI's get on very well and enjoy playing Sol Tzu's war games together in randomly selected teams. It is generally accepted that the 'best game ever' involved the team of Sol Tzu with USA and China vs Professor Smith and the rest of the world. The single strength of those three vs the parallel processing and delegation by Professor Smith to the rest of the world led to an epic game.