Imperialisium wrote:Orostan wrote:A good way of limiting an AI would be economic. Producing robots and industry from scratch takes an enormous amount of effort without a self replicating probe set up.
However, I could supply materials and stolen goods to an AI in exchange for advanced technology and weapons the AI might be able to manufacture better than I can.
In space that is hard to limit.
Orostan does have a point, early on the AI would need to rely on both its ability to stay on the low and potential aid from dissenters in the Imperium proper. The biggest limiter to how fast it can spread and embed and evolve would be hardware. It needs room to grow, so every time it wanted to make a major evolution it'd need to drastically build up its "brains" to accomodate the new software, which ties into its limited industrial base.