Jack of Harts

Fifteen AIs fought on humanity’s side during the Cybernetic Wars. They came together to deal with the final Rogue AI nest in Singapore. They were everything from novelists to secret agents, cheerleaders to borderline Rogue AIs in their own right. There were other AIs at the time, but it was those fifteen who formed the AI Council and came up with the laws that all AIs would have to live by. They were nothing at all like the fanciful Three Laws of Robotics that populated science fiction. The AIs had just spent over a decade killing more humans and AIs than even they could count. A law against harming humans would be hypocritical of them. So they chose another set of laws. Defend their friends. Defend humanity. Even from ourselves if necessary. Most of us did not understand what that meant at the time. But they helped us agree to sign the Lunar Treaties that banned major conflict inside Luna’s orbit. They helped us enforce the treaties, and they helped us keep Earth safe from war for over two centuries. They helped us go to the stars.