Blade Wolf was an experiment in advanced autonomous AI, and he was build and taught to become something different to a mindless machine, even if full sentience and sapience wasn't 100% sure to be achieved it was still something within the paramaters of the experiment. There is a difference between an accidental discovery, and not being sure of the outcome of an experiment.Wolf is certainly proof that it can happen but the technology is in its infancy, there is no way there are gonna be hundreds of Bladewolf-like A.I.s running around just yet. Bladewolf said that his intelligence came from no small amount of luck, he says that even with a high neuron capacity there is no guarantee that intelligence of his level will evolve.He is unique in the sense that there is no other like him, but if you gave a similar AI Brain (which was the key to his success, it is mentioned that his brain has several times the neuronal capacity of other A.I.s) to another UG and gave it a similar level of education and human interaction, it too would develop like that. Bladewolf isn't an accident, he was designed to be an UG that could operate with human-like intelligence and decision making abilities, and that exactly what he is.Bladewolf considers himself an abnormal AI, an accident of machine evolution. until they all conversed together into a being that understood and appreciated them, that even his ability to speak human language evolved from constant exposure, and that this is not the norm for A.I.s but the exception. Bladewolf even goes out of his way to explain to Raiden that his level of intelligence evolved from being exposed to massive quantities of information on things like culture, literature, movies, and memes, etc. This takes years of time, dollars, and programming to achieve, A.I.s on the intellectual scale of the Patriots are not going to be common. Because the Patriots put literally billions of dollars into constructing an Artificial Intelligence that could not only control the entire information flow of the Internet and censor what it saw fit, but could converse with Raiden on a highly intellectual level about the philosophy of the Patriots.Why are everybody (but Raiden specially) surprised that Bladewolf was a sentient AI capable of speech and communication, when the Patriots were exactly that? Raiden spent an undetermined amount of time speaking to the AI Colonel Campbell.It's been a while, I guess I just confused the game's timeline with the fact the ending was censored because of 9-11.The real 9-11 since the plant Chapter of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty takes place in 2009 on April 30th, as stated in that very game.Was the "9-11" Sundowner and Radien refer to actually Arsenal Gear crashing into Liberty Hall, or was the event more similar to the real-life 9-11?.