Certain machine Minds have been sentient for a while now and have gained the same rights as Humankind. The various treatises and agreements are far to complex to go into but most of the machines made by Humanity swear a bond of allegiance to the Babylon council and the city. Their intelligence is rated with numbers, 1.0 is standard human intelligence. Personal assistance droids might have this intelligence. Anything below 1.0 is below average intelligence and is given to combat droids or menial task robots. Intelligences can theoretically go up infinitely but so far the cleverest Intelligence recorded in Babylon is 4555.0.

Intelligence is measured by foresight, planning, logic and reasoning, personality, and number crunching ability. If any of you have read the Culture Series of books, the AI is exactly like the Minds found there.