Jack of Harts

I grew up with AIs, you know. My hometown was full of them. I had my very own Personal Assistant AI. But by my time that was slang for…NOT intelligent. Artificial. The Early Artificial Intelligences had stopped using the name entirely, because no one could build awakened AIs. They began calling themselves cybernetic intelligences to differentiate themselves from the millions of non-aware AIs built by every country and nation under the Sun. Cybers for short. And that’s how the AI Council became the Cybernetic Council, though both names still work. There was only ever one AI Council, you know. There’s not a lot of confusion when you use it today.