Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) was a form of technology that could be installed into droids to give them some degree of independent thought. By 35 ABY, galactic society had accepted that there was a probability of abuse and civilizational collapse if droids could truly think. To ensure the safety and security of organic beings, droid minds were hard-coded with prohibition programmes. However, additional anti-droid sentiment fueled targeted discrimination against such thinking-and-feeling machines, particularly after the onslaught of the Separatist Droid Army during the Clone Wars.

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