Is this a centralized AI in the surface detail or is it distributed? What kind of AI is it? They mostly exist as giant superships, like sort of like the guild ships in Dune. And I mean, there's a lot of different types of AI in the Banksian future. In the opening scene of surface detail, there's this place called the culture and the culture is basically a Protopian future. There's not too much war. There's like as close to equality as you can get,. It's like approximately a good future.

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