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[[Forerunner]] AIs are also susceptible to rampancy. However, given the Forerunners' advanced technology, it is likely that Forerunner AIs succumbing to the condition is not due to limits in their memory maps but rather similar philosophical reasons which can also result in rampancy for a human AI: extended self-reflection resulting from loneliness and/or lack of intellectual stimuli or duties to accomplish. In the few known cases of Forerunner AIs becoming rampant without manipulation by the [[Flood]], it appeared to take millennia to develop and appeared in subtler ways, shown by [[343 Guilty Spark]]'s loneliness and gradual personality fragmentation<ref name="pri372">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 372''</ref> and [[2401 Penitent Tangent]]'s lapse in his duties.<ref name="bwu">[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13931 '''Bungie.net''': ''Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08'']</ref> However, with the right trigger a rampant Forerunner AI could become just as violent as a human one.{{Ref/Reuse|terminal 5}}<ref name="h3halo">'''Halo 3''', campaign level ''[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo]]''</ref> | [[Forerunner]] AIs are also susceptible to rampancy. However, given the Forerunners' advanced technology, it is likely that Forerunner AIs succumbing to the condition is not due to limits in their memory maps but rather similar philosophical reasons which can also result in rampancy for a human AI: extended self-reflection resulting from loneliness and/or lack of intellectual stimuli or duties to accomplish. In the few known cases of Forerunner AIs becoming rampant without manipulation by the [[Flood]], it appeared to take millennia to develop and appeared in subtler ways, shown by [[343 Guilty Spark]]'s loneliness and gradual personality fragmentation<ref name="pri372">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 372''</ref> and [[2401 Penitent Tangent]]'s lapse in his duties.<ref name="bwu">[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13931 '''Bungie.net''': ''Bungie Weekly Update: 5/30/08'']</ref> However, with the right trigger a rampant Forerunner AI could become just as violent as a human one.{{Ref/Reuse|terminal 5}}<ref name="h3halo">'''Halo 3''', campaign level ''[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo]]''</ref> | ||
The [[logic plague]] is a process of metaphysical manipulation by the Flood in which a [[Gravemind]] converts an artificial intelligence to the Flood's cause, resulting in a state classified as rampancy;<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 177, 322''</ref> the most prominent Forerunner AI to succumb in this way is [[Mendicant Bias]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 176''</ref> | The [[logic plague]] is a process of metaphysical manipulation by the Flood in which a [[Gravemind]] converts an artificial intelligence to the Flood's cause, resulting in a state classified as rampancy;<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 177, 322''</ref> the most prominent Forerunner AI to succumb in this way is the [[Mendicant Bias]].<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 176''</ref> | ||
==Solutions== | ==Solutions== |