Second-born intellect

Second-born intellects(also renderedSecond-Born Intellects) are mechanical lifeforms created by organic lifefoms. Don't call them "artificial intelligences";it's demeaning.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

TheDestructonswere a group of Second-Born Intellects constructed by various species who had collectively turned on their creators.Lord Imperious Delirious's profile in Club magazine #59Intersectionality

Humansbuilttheir first artificial intelligencein1985,a year after gaining access toTransformertechnology from the recently-discoveredArk.By the year2014,artificial intelligences became commonplace in human society.Micro-Aggressions

Three hundred years later, theHuman Confederacyemployed full-fledged Second-Born Intellects, beings born from reverse-engineered Cybertronian designs. Many of them chose to identify as neither male nor female, but somewhere in-between these two genders.IntersectionalityVector Prime noted that as the technology which birthed said Intellects was of Cybertronian origin,his audiencemight perhaps classify them as transgender Cybertronians.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/23Many Second-Born Intellects served in humanity'sConfederated Terran Colonial Fleet.Among them wasScrewball,the AI in charge of theSpooky Action at a DistanceIntersectionalityandPox,the resident AI ofThe Problem of Infinities.The Inexorable March

Ask Vector Prime

During thesecond Cybertronian warofAurex 404.11 Kappa,Vector Primeled the Autobots against many threats, including the Second-Born Intellects known as the Destructons.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12