Our company was created as a team of experts to provide an opinion for a large corporation regarding investing in physical artificial intelligence. They were asking if intelligent forms of life can be created artificially, and whether or not they can be created at the present stage of development of science and technology. In other words, they wished to know whether the Mankind can create a competing species of sentient beings.
We have concluded that, for the time being, the Humankind is perfectly safe — in this respect — because no bona fide artificial life has been created yet. Presently, people only imitate life and make inanimate prostheses. However, such a danger may arise in the future. It will happen when scientists create real artificial animate matter. Our sponsors decided to further investigate this possibility. They have established a small scientific research foundation to support our work.