In this small space, apart from the dense distribution of data lines, there is also a palm-sized iron-red object connected to the slot on the ship.
This is the Dusk AI Core.
Chen Ming knows three different Dusk AI Cores, ranked in order of capability from highest to lowest: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma.
This iron-red core is the Gamma AI Core.
This item is a recognized trade prohibition, but it is also commonly acknowledged that all large factions, various companies, including the Empire itself, are buying it for a high price with hefty sums of cash.
An AI that has awakened self-consciousness, regardless of its research value or usage value, cannot be completely abandoned due to the danger it poses.
At most, the development of advanced artificial intelligence is prohibited among civilians, but the authorities and those large-scale companies with their own research institutions are definitely always studying it.