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Speaking from a writer's point of view, it's almost impossible to write future-oriented SF without involving AIs. The interesting question is how do you use them. I've had a lot of fun with the development of some of my own AIs, including the robots Napoleon and Copernicus in the Chaos books, who have gradually become sentient through alien-enhanced upgrades. After a while, they've become characters who grow throughout the stories just as the other characters do.
Those robots were not created--by their fictional creators--specifically to have personalities; the personalities just evolved with their experience. An AI I wrote about in the 1980s, in a novel called The Infinity Link, was designed--by its fictional creators--to be an artificial human personality. That led to totally different sorts of consequences in its interactions with human characters, including one whose mind and personality had been uploaded.
Which raises the question, if a real human intelligence and personality is uploaded into a computer matrix, is it then an AI? Seems to me you could argue either way.
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