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^{petros: I see it like this; Skynet left behind two kinds of thing. Either AGI that was always intended to be nothing more than a simple machine, very advanced, but never recursive, or Seed AI that hit a dead end and could not be repaired, and so is full of absurd obsessions and weird blindspots. And, of course, the machinery that goes along with these things.}

_{Dealing with the basic killbots is fairly straightforward. They are ‘just’ very advanced AGI inside a very advanced killing machine. They may be very adaptive, but they are also very limited. They were set to patrol an area, or to attack a target, and they just kept doing it when their overlord ASI left. They are capable of repairing themselves, making strategies, and communicating with each other and with mutants on the prowl, but at the end of the day they are just machines.}

_{The broken Seed AI are somewhat different. They are the Skynet equivalent–and that’s already alien enough–of something between corrupted uploads and ex-humans, and they are loaded with Skynet grade insanity. They get some mad idea in their head, and they apply their insane reasoning in achieving it. Maybe one of them wants to send a message to the people on the Moon, and so they gather as many mutants and killbots as they can to spell it out in a physical string of letters each a kilometre in size. Another one decided deeper was safer, and so dug down as far as it could to the core, developing heat dissipating technology beyond anything humanity could imagine just trying to get to the center of the earth. Some of them have projects like this, while others just sit and wait for someone to come and talk to them, or for the masters to return. The latter are highly effective enemies, but they always have a weak spot. They can order around any killbots or mutants they can get a hold of, and even make more of them if they like. Only another broken Seed AI can really challenge them.}