Second-born intellect

Second-Born Intellects are mechanical lifeforms created by organic lifefoms.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Destructons were a group of Second-Born Intellects constructed by various species who had collectively turned on their creators. Intersectionality

Humans built their first artificial intelligence in 1985, a year after gaining access to Transformer technology from the recently-discovered Ark. By the year 2014, artificial intelligences became commonplace in human society. Micro-Aggressions

Three hundred years later, the Human Confederacy employed full-fledged Second-Born Intellects, beings born from reverse-engineered Cybertronian designs. Many of them chose to identify as neither male nor female, but somewhere in-between these two genders. Intersectionality Vector Prime noted that as the technology which birthed said Intellects was of Cybertronian origin, his audience might perhaps classify them as transgender Cybertronians. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/23 Many Second-Born Intellects served in humanity's Confederated Terran Colonial Fleet. Among them was Screwball, the AI in charge of the Spooky Action at a Distance. Intersectionality

Ask Vector Prime

During the second Cybertronian war of Aurex 404.11 Kappa, Vector Prime led the Autobots against many threats, including the Second-Born Intellects known as the Destructons. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12