Is the AI a ghost?

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Let's also not forget about Ghost Drones. The participants are definitely willing, but given that the sorts of things that go on in ghost drone factories (ghosts are captured via a ghost trap, then inserted into a frame),  I think it's pretty clear that ghosts are being put back into the physical world as loyal machines. Mind you, these loyal machines have limited corporeality; they can still communicate with the dead, and re-enter the ghost world when they die and run out of charge, unlike cyborgs, who merely cannot talk or show emotions when their battery has ran low/empty.

Combined with their less versatile, less modular, and more limited toolset, and their static laws, it's possible that ghost drone technology is yet another facet of NT's attempts to create soul digitization technology, as limited but still useful predecessor of the that used in AIs and Cyborgs.