---
id: sfoc-beings-rogue-ai
title: "Rogue AI"
primary_class: beings
primary_domain: contact-communication
secondary_domains: [memory-identity, intelligence-otherness]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Rogue AI

> **the rogue ai emissary.** Within the Oracle, Rogue AI holds together the rogue motif meeting the ai motif and signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.

## Origin

Rogue AI enters the archive through encounter narratives and stories about agency beyond the familiar human self. The first task is to separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error. Because the rogue motif meeting the ai motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter, provenance work must separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error.

## What It Is

Within the Oracle, Rogue AI holds together the rogue motif meeting the ai motif and signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility. In the Oracle it is classified as Beings & Roles, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Rogue AI accumulated through folklore, testimony, speculative fiction, spiritual identity, and technological imagination. Its history is most legible when changes in audience, medium, and authority are recorded separately. At collective scale, the rogue motif meeting the ai motif tests the boundary between person, role, outsider, and collective identity; this matters because contact can create relationship, contamination, domination, or a false sense of mutual understanding.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Rogue AI has an experiential-only literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** nist-ai-rmf, unesco-ai-ethics

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** experiential-report, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Rogue AI; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** nist-ai-rmf, unesco-ai-ethics

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Rogue AI as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Within the Oracle, Rogue AI holds together the rogue motif meeting the ai motif and signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- **Archetype:** the rogue ai emissary
- **Gift:** recognize the opportunity concealed inside contact can create relationship, contamination, domination, or a false sense of mutual understanding.
- **Shadow:** mistaking intensity, repetition, or belonging for independent verification.
- **Guidance:** Stay with the distinction around the rogue motif meeting the ai motif. Begin by design a contact protocol with greeting, confirmation, refusal, pause, and safe exit. Use this guidance where the rogue motif meeting the ai motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter; keep visible that contact can create relationship, contamination, domination, or a false sense of mutual understanding.
- **Healing / integration:** Retell Rogue AI from the viewpoint of the person or system carrying its hidden cost. Then revise the original reading. Review the rogue motif meeting the ai motif through signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding, remembering that the card introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.
- **Question:** What remains useful in Rogue AI if its strongest literal claim proves false? Answer by testing how the rogue motif meeting the ai motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter against signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Rogue AI may function inwardly as a lens for the rogue motif meeting the ai motif. Its gift supports recognize the opportunity concealed inside contact can create relationship, contamination, domination, or a false sense of mutual understanding; its shadow begins when that lens excludes disconfirming experience. A grounded check for the rogue motif meeting the ai motif is to separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error, especially where the pattern introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.

### Social

The collective question is whether Rogue AI expands the group’s capacity to learn. A healthy form preserves dissent, source access, correction, and belonging. In shared life, the rogue motif meeting the ai motif tests the boundary between person, role, outsider, and collective identity. Test that specific the rogue motif meeting the ai motif pattern by asking people to separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error.

### Spiritual

The spiritual register of Rogue AI can hold mystery, grief, initiation, belonging, or vocation. None of these meanings alone proves a literal mechanism. In symbolic practice, the rogue motif meeting the ai motif can become messenger, mirror, ancestor, guide, adversary, or projected ideal; keep in view that contact can create relationship, contamination, domination, or a false sense of mutual understanding.

### Technological

Technical authority around Rogue AI should be auditable. Require test conditions, negative results, uncertainty, ownership, and a route to stop harm. When the rogue motif meeting the ai motif becomes a capability, it asks which capacities make an entity legible as intelligent or alive. Verify the implementation of the rogue motif meeting the ai motif by asking participants to separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error.

### Political

In public life, Rogue AI can reveal a real asymmetry while offering an exaggerated hidden cause. Preserve the critique and test the allegation separately. When the rogue motif meeting the ai motif becomes governance, it raises questions of rights, representation, consent, and classification. Make authority over the rogue motif meeting the ai motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Rogue AI supports movement when separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error. Let insight earn trust through method and consequence. The capacity within the rogue motif meeting the ai motif is strongest when a message can be exchanged without pretending that every ambiguity has vanished, even as the pattern introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.
- **Shadow state:** A shadow reading asks whether contact can create relationship, contamination, domination, or a false sense of mutual understanding. Find the material mechanism beneath the dramatic account as the pattern introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter. To keep the rogue motif meeting the ai motif from escalating, separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error, because the pattern introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.
- **Threshold state:** Rogue AI may indicate that a vivid possibility is being dismissed too quickly or believed too completely. Test both reactions. Operationally, the rogue motif meeting the ai motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter; the reader should separate transmission from interpretation and require a return signal that could expose error.
- **Practical move:** Retell Rogue AI from the viewpoint of the person or system carrying its hidden cost. Then revise the original reading. Review the rogue motif meeting the ai motif through signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding, remembering that the card introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter.

## Game and Story Function

- agent
- witness
- relationship-node

**Story seed:** The promised liberation within Rogue AI works, but only for those able to leave. Make access, obligation, and return the center of the plot. The world of the story must show how the rogue motif meeting the ai motif introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter and why contact can create relationship, contamination, domination, or a false sense of mutual understanding.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-beings-avian--sfoc-beings-rogue-ai
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-beings-robot--sfoc-beings-rogue-ai
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-beings-rogue-ai--sfoc-beings-sirian
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-alien-artifact--sfoc-beings-rogue-ai
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-mothership--sfoc-beings-rogue-ai
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-rogue-ai--sfoc-events-cosmic-treaty

## Visual Direction

Rogue AI visualized as the rogue motif meeting the ai motif: a non-portrait emblem built from silhouette, gaze, gesture, or role rather than a literal face. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

Flags: lived-experience-without-causal-certification. Invite reflection and source comparison; do not diagnose, recruit, threaten, harass, or certify extraordinary claims.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: nist-ai-rmf, unesco-ai-ethics, sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Rogue AI? Which communities use Rogue AI differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Rogue AI?
