Project Alicization

Project Alicization is a top-secret government project run by RATH using the fourth generation FullDive technology, Soul Translator. Their goal is to create a bottom-up Artificial Intelligence (AI) by simulating these AI's lives in a virtual reality as if they were human. What is unique about these AIs is that they are able to "learn" as a human does. While RATH's end-goal is to use these AIs to fight in wars instead of humans, the virtual world they are raised in prevents them from breaking even the most insignificant of laws, especially killing another. The virtual world that houses these AIs is called, by the creators, the Underworld: the name may or may not be connected to the original name of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland also known as Alice's Adventures Under Ground. The facilities that have connections to it are in Roppongi and the «Ocean Turtle» (a marine base that kind of looks like the Mock Turtle from the story).

Background and Developement
Originally RATH planned to take human Fluctlights and clone them to be used as soldiers, but this research was discontinued as it was found out that the cloned Fluctlights could not properly receive the information that they were clones and because of this they could not survive for longer than 3 minutes. After this, RATH turned to experimenting on cloning the Fluctlights of newborn babies, because these Fluctlights were not yet developed, these Fluctlights did not mature to become clones, but instead they each uniquely developed. After discovering this RATH decided to place these Fluctlights into a virtual world and watch them develope and so the workers had the Seed program create a new world that they copied onto a server to use as the required VR.

Testing
For experimentation purposes, RATH inserts Kirito into the Underworld and, to their surprise, the AIs who interacted with Kirito come closer to breaking the rules imbedded in them than any other AIs. After allowing the experiment to continue for a while, a girl, that by coincidence, is named Alice, finally breaks one of the cardinal rules in the world. This action warranted extreme penalty, and she was isolated at the top of the cathedral. For 7 years, she was kept up there, and it is unknown what exactly happened to her.

Proyecto Alicization