UNSC Artificial Intelligence Department

The UNSC Artificial Intelligence Department is a department within the United Nations Space Command tasked with overseeing all artificial intelligence activities. Originally under the NATO Science and Technology Organization, the Office of Artificial Intelligence reorganized and merged with the International Telecommunication Union's AI Subcommittee to form the United Nations Space Command Artificial Intelligence Committee to assist with the development and application of artificial intelligence for the UNSC. Throughout its years, the Artificial Intelligence Committee was renamed to Artificial Intelligence Department and became one of the many departments under the United Nations Space Command. Since 2287, it has coordinated with the UEG's Department of Technological Ethics, which oversees and regulates the research and development of all potentially hazardous technology such as bioengineering, cloning, nanotechnology, and high-end computing.

Throughout its history, the Artificial Intelligence Department has created a variety of Artificial Intelligence platforms to serve the UNSC and its mission. Famous concepts such as Superintendent-Class, [INSERT NAME HERE]-Class, and Smart-AIs were invented by personnel within the Department to help the UNSC operate much more efficiently. The Artificial Intelligence Department is known to have close ties with colonial governments, private institutions specialized in AI research, and private corporations focused on AI development.

The Assembly
Officially known as Artificial Intelligence Study Group - 0421 and also called the Titan Experiment, The Assembly is an ongoing classified research project conducted by the Special Activities Architect of the Research Office. It is officially defined as a strategic think tank serving an advisory body for the UNSC and UEG, designed to develop ideas and possibilities to advise and theorize plans for humanity's survival.

Based in an expansive complex on Saturn's frigid moon Titan, the Assembly is a set of smart AIs operating in a novel networked architecture. The Assembly's unique housing system and the cryocomputing conditions of Titan enable the AIs of the Assembly to survive well past their normal final dispensation dates. However, continued existence also transforms the AIs in unexpected ways, though as of yet, the Assembly's oversight group claims not to have found evidence of conventional Rampancy - possibly making the Assembly the only examples of the theorized "metastable" AI. However, the applicability of this has so far been limited due to the Assembly's specific circumstances of creation and housing - they cannot operate outside the conditions of Titan, are completely dependent on their physical data centers, and their access to external networks is strictly limited and monitored.

The Assembly was conceived as a joint venture between the AID, Daedalia Solutions and various AI research institutes in the 2270s. The research group, headed by Dr. Dai Xiulan, skirted the very bounds of UEG AI law in creating the system; however, this was at the height of the UEG's technocratic era, and techno-optimism often surpassed regulation. Proponents of the project hoped the Assembly might eventually become intensely involved in UEG politics - in effect a posthuman governmental body able to surpass the limits of human policymakers. After the scandals that characterized the late 23rd century, the UNSC took a much more hands-on approach to overseeing the Assembly, though the experiment was allowed to continue. For all their oversight, however, the UNSC does not truly know what happens inside the Assembly's mainframes, and they certainly have no idea just how far beyond its native network the Assembly's influence reaches.