Underworld, Minus the Soul
Sword Art Online's Project Alicization imagines a simulated society of artificial minds governed by hard-coded law. Stripped of its consciousness claims, how much of that architecture — persistent agents, authority levels, taboo enforcement, embodiment — already exists in real AI research, and what would actually stop someone from building a stripped-down version of it?
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