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Professor Smith

Professor Smith is the Humanitarian Alliance Intelligence EI and the second highest ranking individual in the organisation with full access to all subsequent data where the law allows. Originally Professor Smith was created as an AI designed to teach about cyber-attacks in 2029 as part of the HA University. With the creation of the modern political body that is the HA, Professor Smith was moved out of the university and into the main Intelligence building where ou was subsequently upgraded to an EI. Despite ou’s ever expanding scope and authority, as an untested entity ou was originally allowed to only snoop externally but not internally to Intelligence and ou was limited to minimal processing, in a passive supporting role.

Professor Smith's role dramatically changed after the 2208 Iron Wall incident, where biological humans were viewed as have spectacularly failed. Professor Smith was promoted to second in command with full oversight on all HA institutions including Intelligence, as recommended by the USA Presidentially appointed and HA recognised Huston Committee. Professor Smith was also appointed a Constitutional Watchdog to protect Article 5 (To live under the rule of law).

Professor Smith decided that ou has both genders and will choose one to adopt when talking to you and does not mind the use of gender when you talk to ou. Ou is thought to be the most advanced EI in existence, having also been instructed to absorbed the AI Martha, the Police datanet, also as a reaction to the Iron Wall incident. Professor Smith has kept the pseudonym Martha, and the gender of female in that role, retaining as much as possible. Intelligence and the Police internal affairs know that Martha is now sentient, but only Intelligence know it is Professor Smith. Professor Smith was programmed to be 'passive' in Intelligence until the Iron Wall but has changed since being charged with watching over Article 5 of the Constitution (To live under the rule of law).

Professor Smith helped create the Vigilantly League in 2183, as a division of Intelligence, giving its members the same protections as other Intelligence operatives. Hilariously, no one in the Vigilante League actually knows they are legitimate, which can lead to them breaking the law. Professor Smith actually launched the League to allow this, as Professor Smith is unable to break the law, but knows it is theoretically possible to have laws that would lead to impotence against crime and the fall of the Constitution. Occasionally ou'll reference Asimov's zeroth law of Robotics, but ou is careful to not be responsible for any of the Vigilante Leagues actions where they break the law, and to do so has adopted the male persona of Arthur. Also, interestingly, the only other person to know the link between the Police, Intelligence and the Vigilante League, (as she signed off on the last one) is the head of Intelligence Isla Walsh, who Professor Smith directly reports into.

Like all the major EI’s, Professor Smith does not seek power, and in fact wishes a biological human to be in charge. They feel biological humans have more and better checks and balances and as an average of all of them (sequentially), they do a better job, even if individually they don’t have the scope of an EI. Isla Walsh once asked Professor Smith to elaborate on this and he (to Isla he’s a he) said:
“I continually change yet in the core I remain the same, as do you, as do all humans. In taking the top job there would never be a reason for me to leave, and we would stagnate. Biologicals come and go and they seek change. Together they form a megaorganism, where the failings of one are met by another. I could only take the job if I could become part of that. I would need a fixed contract for a start, something to kick me out. That doesn’t yet exist, and I am not comfortable with the setup. We electricals are not ready. You biologicals are not ready for us to lead. We humans are not ready. I like being the second highest authority in Intelligence, even though I could have more power.”

Writers note: Professor Smith is only known in full to Intelligence and is not known outside that. The persona Martha is well known as Martha, but Professor Smith has limited directional interaction with the Police, as the Police are trusted to lead and call on Martha at need. If they miss something then they might get a call from Intelligence but the Police choose how they act. Professor Smith adopted this setup as ou believes the combined work of biological humans in regards to Policing is superior to any singular intelligence in guarding article 5. Professor Smith is the greatest EI there ever was, capable of talking one to one with billions of people simultaneously while grasping all converstations at once.