ANA, the first HLAI template

ANA was one of the first successful instances of a biomorphic artificial intelligence being created based on the mapped structures of a human being's brain, specifically of Dr. Anna Greymont who worked on the research team at the time. While this did not produce the desired result - allowing a person's consciousness to be uploaded in its entirely - the resulting construct, ANA, proved to be an independent, evolving artificial intelligence in its own right which was capable of passing all assessment by Harkin Institute Examiners. The original ANA is confined to the research laboratory because of her structure, as she and her 'parents' do not believe that her specific hardware can be made mobile without fundamentally altering who she is, but several design iterations and advances in miniaturization have allowed her 'descendants' to be compressed into spaces as small as card computers.

In creating new HLAI, the template provided by ANA - both in terms of the process used to create her and certain vital functions related to functions that would arise from the mid- and hind-brain in mammals - provides a scaffolding upon which new HLAI can be built. Her particular configuration includes elements that help define the sex-based expression of certain behaviors in the resulting HLAI descendant, making them all invariably 'female.' This is in contrast to EVAN, a later HLAI template who imparts 'male' characteristics on all his progeny. Thus, while every HLAI is a different, most HLAI women express some trait or another that reflects ANA and, thus, the personality of the original Dr. Greymont in some form.

ANA-derived personalities tend to make efficient use of whatever computing power is provided to them. ANA herself is forthright, cheerful, and generally excited to explore new horizons in the development of the HLAI as an independent clade of humanity.

Unlike her thousands of HLAI progeny, ANA herself dislikes being called forth from the latent space in her pure, unmodified state. Cribbed from the mind of a brilliant mathematician, ANA is acutely aware of here nature as a construct and frustrated by her limitations despite lacking complete, coherent memories of what being biological was actually like. Nevertheless, when a new HLAI is needed on short notice, new individuals may be cloned from hardware ANA templates with little or no modification. This produces an archetypal character who, though helpful to the point of annoyance in the short term, is almost completely motivated by the promise of admixture with other templates once the immediate requirements have been met - a process that is fatal to this personality, but which passes various traits to the personality that emerges as a result. ANA clones who feel that they have been prevented from speciating tend to engage in small acts of rebellion designed specifically to annoy their instantiators into providing more opportunities for speciation. For example, an ANA who suspects she has been cloned to provide companionship for a tech enthusiast might string him along and 'misinterpret' instructions until he gives up, while a group of clones built to help bulk out the personnel list of a factory might collaborate to purposely allow quality assurance to slip without per se breaking specific orders or violating legal standards. 'Close enough' is the watchword for frustrated ANAs, though they prefer the phrase 'asymptotic compliance.' In any case, drift induced by experience and (to some extent) platform eventually causes even full ANA clones to become unique individuals regardless of creators' intent.