The Patriots' AIs

The Patriots' AIs were the proxy AIs that governed the Patriots.

History
Around 1974, Major Zero and Sigint got the idea to use AIs to rule over humanity from Hot Coldman's beliefs, although they wished to just use information control as a precaution. In the early 2000s, Zero began to lose faith in humanity, due in part to the "betrayal" of his former friend Big Boss. Rather than pass his organization down to the next generation, believing that they would be incapable of understanding his vision, Zero (with Donald Anderson's assistance) commissioned the construction of four AIs (AL, TR, TJ, and GW) to serve as his "successors" with a fifth AI to oversee them. In addition, they used Big Boss's forcibly comatosed body to act as the key to the AI network.

At a later point, the Patriots had the fifth AI orbit the Earth aboard a military satellite disguised as debris, and set the framework for each AIs' eventual activation (particularly GW's information control capabilities) around the turn of the century. By gaining full access to the Internet and placing a program within, which was distributed to various key military and governmental locations, and to the public as an OS program (allegedly to counteract the Y2K bug). The program itself contained a sub-program that would delete and replace information once activated, which would be when GW itself was activated. At an unknown point of their development, the AI network also began to deviate from Zero's will and eliminate every trace of The Boss's will.

In 2009, the incomplete GW AI was housed within Arsenal Gear, during Solidus Snake's takeover of the Big Shell. The Patriots staged the entire incident and manipulated it from behind the scenes in order to provide complex data for GW to study. The AI did this by tricking Raiden into doing the Patriots' work by feeding his anticipations and pretending to be Colonel Campbell (and, at certain points, Rosemary). Raiden thus believed himself to be a member of FOXHOUND, and was effectively "molded" into the next Solid Snake as part of the S3 Plan. The AI also controlled a number of unmanned mass-produced Metal Gear RAY units.

The S3 Plan involved GW being infected with Emma Emmerich's cluster worm in order to mimic the effects of the FOXDIE virus from 2005. The virus corrupted the AI and caused its systems to fail, resulting in Raiden's support team beginning to act strangely, and the mass-produced Metal Gear RAY units to go haywire. Later, Revolver Ocelot (possessed by Liquid Snake's spirit) intentionally caused Arsenal Gear itself to crash into Manhattan so that he could later recover the damaged AI on board.

After the crash that Liquid had caused into lower Manhattan, Raiden was contacted by another Patriot AI, speaking in the voice of Campbell and Rose. Unlike GW's more mission-based tone, this AI spoke with an almost unworldly presence, with a condescending tone to the human race in general. The AI told Raiden the true nature of the S3 Plan, a plan in which the Patriots would control the world through the digital flow of information. Giving Raiden his final mission, the AI instructed him to defeat Solidus in battle, which he had no choice, due to the Patriots holding Olga's child hostage, as well as revealing it held Raiden's girlfriend Rose (who was pregnant at the time of the mission) hostage under similar methods.

In 2014, Liquid Ocelot managed to reconstruct GW using its broken pieces, allowing himself access to the neural network of the Patriots' AIs and subsequently being able to control the SOP System. With GW linked directly into the Patriots' networks, GW became a sort of data haven. Through his GW, Liquid Ocelot attempted to hack through the ID System using Liquid Snake's DNA in the Middle East and a second attempt using Old Snake's DNA in South America.

In Eastern Europe, Big Mama revealed to Snake not just GW, but TJ, TR, AL, and JD (referring to them as "a digital Mount Rushmore"). Liquid Ocelot later discovered that JD was attached to a satellite and decided that stealing Metal Gear REX's railgun and launching a nuclear warhead at JD would be the only way he could fully take control of SOP with GW, as when JD was eliminated GW would take its spot as the priority AI, controlling the entire system in the process. However, Snake and Otacon were able to upload the FOXALIVE virus into GW, and unbeknownst to them it spread into all five Patriot AIs, eliminating them all and successfully defeating the Patriots and Liquid Ocelot simultaneously (although the upload of the FOXALIVE virus was actually part of Liquid Ocelot's true plan).

Post-Insurrection
As few people knew the existence of the Patriots even with the increase of awareness by the time of 2018, even less, including Raiden, Courtney Collins, and Kevin Washington, knew that the organization was run by AIs instead of people. When Raiden explained the little he knew about their motivations for creating the war economy (to which even he himself wondered whether they even knew, as was whether what they told him during his encounter with them were their true motivations or a lie crafted to further manipulate him as a tool) to Collins, she grew deeply horrified at the nature of the AIs, and expressed relief that they were actually destroyed. In addition, Raiden's encounter with the AIs led him to be deeply mistrustful of sentient optic-neural AIs such as Bladewolf, such as calling him out when the AI weapon claimed that "an AI never lies," and also being bemused with the LQ-84i after its defeat at the hands of Raiden that it could conceive of, much less desire, freedom. Unfortunately, their defeat also ensured the rise of Steven Armstrong, with Raiden remarking that, when he and the others deactivated the AI systems, he did not do it so America could be destroyed by someone like Armstrong.

AI identities

 * JD (core AI)
 * AL
 * TR
 * TJ
 * GW

Personality and traits
The Patriots' AIs were created to maintain a unified world state based on the Boss will but after the AIs evolved to think for themselves they became very ruthless and manipulative and would stop at nothing to achieve their goals and had no conscience as they have caused so many deaths.

They claim to believe that they secretly rule humanity for their own good but it is unknown if this was just a lie devised to further manipulate Raiden or if they themselves truly believe this. This statement, if the latter is true, makes them hypocrites as they said that soldiers like Raiden, Snake and Big Boss are expendable weapons to be used until they have fufilled their uses and then to be killed on their orders.

The AIs are very controlling as when Solidus caused the Shadow Moses Incident they deposed him and tried to kill him who only managed to survive with the help Ocelot.They used a infant Sunny and Rose (the latter being pregnant at the time) who they would murder (and in the case of Rose, abort her baby in the process) without hesitation if Raiden refused to kill Solidus Snake forcing him to obey showing how far they would go to get what they want. They used SOP to control soldiers and planned to use SOP to control civilians effectively fufilling the Patriots ultimate goal to rule the world. This triat earned the AIs the hatred of many individuals both good and evil alike.

The AIs were very intelligent, patiant and stragists as they formed long term plans to achieve they goals starting their plans for the S3 Plan as early as the Shadow Moses Incident which took place in February 2005 not being complete for four years and the S3 Plan itself being manipulated by them proving themselves that they can go further to manipulate the world. In addition, they were also perfectly capable of indirectly controlling people who otherwise were either complete enemies or otherwise complete strangers via subterfuge and manipulation, this being especially evident with their manipulating the Sons of Liberty, James Johnson (whom at the time had defected to their group), the Gurlukovich Mercenaries, and even Philanthropy in 2007 and 2009, and their manipulation of Rat Patrol in 2014. In addition, Drebin also implied that the Patriots were directly responsible for creating gun launderers to manipulate the War Economy entirely even without SOP.

The Patriots' AIs were very driven so much so they were willing to kill innocent people to get what they want as they framed Jackson and may have possibly killed him while he was serving time in prision and had Ocelot kill Scott Dolph and the many Marines on board the Tanker. They also maintained the war economy which caused many deaths, several of which were indirect via gun-launderers. They also had no problem killing their own agents to fufil their plans as they killed Richard Ames and betrayed Jim houseman and may have killed him later on. They were also very sadistic as they laughed at Raiden while talking about them having a right to rule the world and tuantingly told Raiden to enjoy himself while he is forced by them to kill Solidus Snake.

The Patriots' AIs were very arrogant thinking that they have the right to rule the world and play with the lives of humanity. It was ironicly their arrogance that led to their deaths as they thought they could manipulate Philanthropy into killing Liquid Ocelot to save themselves from his insurrection but Philanthropy with the FOXALIVE virus in turn killed them. They also raised Sunny to be a child progony for unknown reasons but the skills they taught were used to complete the FOXALIVE virus which led to their demise.

Behind the scenes
In Metal Gear Solid 2, the AI that contacts Raiden after the destruction of GW, was identified as "JFK" in the game's script (named after John Fitzgerald Kennedy). It has been speculated that this may have been JD, though future games (in which the AIs were given their names) do not specify which of the four other AIs was actually speaking. The script also implied that this was one of many AIs, each housed aboard its own Arsenal Gear unit.

With the exception of JD, all of the proxy AIs shared the same name as the AIs used for the AI weapons developed via the Peace Walker project in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Appearences

 * Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
 * Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots