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===Abilities===
[[File:Ai Devours a Knight of Hanoi Member.png|thumb|left|200px|Ai about to devour a Knight of Hanoi member. ]]
As an AI belonging to the [[Cyberse (world)|Cyberse]], Ai has some degree of control over it. He is the only one who knows its location and can unlock data from it to start a [[Data Storm]]. Ai is shown to be far more sophisticated than other AIs, being fully capable of thinking and acting on his own will and showing emotion. According to [[Shoichi Kusanagi]], Ai is built out of highly complicated algorithms that even Yusaku couldn't fully decode. Ai' memories are stored in the form of video logs. However, Ai' level of free will is limited by the fact that he is still an AI, as such he can't comprehend why humans do actions that would seem illogical and contradicting with each other.
When Shoichi found out that [[Aoi Zaizen]], Yusaku's classmate, is "Blue Angel", Ai helped Yusaku locate her while they were at school. Ai forced Yusaku to join the Duel Club and tried to interact with Aoi's Duel Disk AI. The next day Ai noticed something strange about Aoi's AI so he sent her a text message on Playmaker's behalf challenging Blue Angel to a Duel, then tricked Yusaku into going into VRAINS to confront Blue Angel. There, he explained that Hanoi must've planted [[Dark Angel (anime)|a card]] into Blue Angel's deck to use her as bait for Playmaker.<ref name="ep6">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|6|ref}}</ref> During the Duel, Ai was horrified when Blue Angel was affected by Hanoi's card and warned Playmaker that if the Duel continued much longer, Aoi would suffer permanent brain damage.<ref name="ep7">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|7|ref}}</ref>
After the Duel concluded Ai devoured Hanoi's program and detected that they had infected Aoi with a virus to keep her comatose. Later Ai told Yusaku and Shoichi that the only way to remove the virus was to get an anti-Virus from Hanoi. Right after that, a [[Emma Bessho|"Blue Angel"]] impostor appeared demanding a rematch. Despite knowing that it was a trap, Yusaku went to confront the impostor because he could get a chance to obtain the anti-virus. Upon arriving however, the impostor turned the entirety of VRAINS into a trap to capture Playmaker and revealed herself to be Ghost Girl. [[Akira Zaizen]] appeared and tortured Playmaker, believing him to be the culprit of Aoi being comatose and swore to reclaim Ai. Playmaker and Ai tried to explain that Hanoi were the real culprits to no avail, until Revolver appeared and blackmailed Akira into releasing Playmaker so they could Duel.<ref name="ep8">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|8|ref}}</ref>
During the Duel, Ai noted that Revolver didn't have an AI. Revolver said that he didn't trust AIs and that Ai must be destroyed otherwise the virtual fiction of VRAINS will destroy the world. When Revolver used "Storm Access", Ai was shocked that because that was his signature program, but also called out Revolver's hypocrisy of wanting to destroy [[Cyberse (world)|Cyberse]] while borrowing power from it, Revolver countered that claiming that he was "countering poison with poison".<ref name="ep9">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|9|ref}}</ref> As the Duel progressed, Revolver gained the upperhand, and worrying that they might lose, Ai led Playmaker to another Data Storm, where the two obtained [[Firewall Dragon (anime)|a dragon]]. However, Revolver activated the Trap Card, "[[Remote Rebirth (anime)|Remote Rebith]]", and combo-ed it with the effect of "[[Topologic Bomber Dragon (anime)|Topologic Bomber Dragon]]", ending the Speed Duel in a draw. Following that, Revolver dragged Playmaker and Ai inside a Data Storm, where they began a [[Master Duel]]. As the Duel went on, Revolver activated the effect of "[[Fire Prison]]", eliminating all [[Cyberse]] cards from the field, as well as making Ai seemingly vanish into thin air.<ref name="ep10">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS|10|ref}}</ref>
