- "The nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead."
- —Dixie Flatline
Some AIs have the intelligence of dogs and are sold as very expensive pets. Smarter ones are rare, generally controlled by the Turing Police, and most are used by the military or corporations.
According to the Act of '53 and some equivalent ones, AIs can have citizenship. Tessier-Ashpool own some AIs (their mainframe and software), like Wintermute. Dixie Flatline comparing it as "I own your brain and knowledge but your thoughts have Swiss citizenship".
To Molly's surprise, hackers aren't much interested in AIs; some reasons are that they are rare, the military ones are protected by heavy ICE, as well as the Turing cops.
According to Dixie Flatline AIs would be able to write poems. But there is no way to understand their motivation; there is a confusion between a move the parent company makes, and a move the AI makes on its own.