https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Gzilt https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Gzilt Banks did consider this. The Gzilt were a quite powerful race who had no AI.

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Gzilt https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Gzilt Banks did consider this. The Gzilt were a quite powerful race who had no AI. Instead they emulated groups of biological intelligences on faster hardware, in a sort of group mind type machine.