Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-4913740-20140331092208/@comment-192.160.117.141-20140408185225

42.98.52.216 wrote: Oh true, I forgot Emma was the one who worked on the GW so the AIs should have been a more recent thing than the 1980s. I initially thought the AIs were produced around then given The Boss' AI is advanced enough to control the Peace Walker even in 1974...

Don't forget, GW was not the only AI already active in 2009 - When GW broke down, some kind of "master" AI, probably JD, showed up and started talking about their plan to destroy all cat videos or something, remember? So they were definitely around before then. That said, according to EVA in MGS4, it was Big Boss's betrayal that motivated Zero to hand the reins to the AIs, so, while it's possible that one or more of the AIs have existed in some form since their inspiration by the Peace Walker AI in 1974, they probably didn't have more power than Zero until 1995 at the very earliest.