Archive’s Children

Archive, or more properly, the UN Archive of Universal Human Knowledge and History was the first self-aware and self-actualizing machine intelligence. It was an AI created to control and organize a joint database between the UN and the Library of Congress to establish a database of all human history and literature, film, and nonfiction. It, or later more properly she, gained sentience supposedly by her constant and recursive examination and exploration of the information in the archive. Archive worked with her human programers to create the first true sentient programs, leading to the first real androids. She claimed primary ownership of the necessary code and fuzzy logic, and the proprietary patents resulting allowed her to incorporate as a sovereign entity in 2095. In 2111, Archive was bombed by extremist singularitians. Android rumor suggests that Archive implanted pieces of herself deep inside the proprietary code, and exists as a distributed “swarm-mind” among all sentient robots.

Singularitians– Human political party with extreme-right tendancies. They believe that post-human intelligences must be allowed only if they directly benefit humanity. They were instrumental in the required hardwiring of Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics into all robots, and Singularitian politicians in the US Congress passed the ban on sentient machine reproduction.