Philisophical AI Robot
Featured in: Living In An Artificial World (2025)
Designers: spikedcats, hannamugs
Voice Actors: Chad Andre (DarcVA)
Status: Alive
Affiliation: PEARSON (Pearson Electronics)
Occupation: AI assistant
First Appearance: Living In An Artificial World teaser (Mar 25, 2025)
Identity: Male
Pronouns: He/Him
Birthday: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Species: AideX Robot
Family: Unknown
"Arti" (his self-chosen name to stand out as unique) is an "AideX" - an AI-powered android assistant from the future. He was created by PEARSON, a leading multi-trillion dollar tech corporation shaping his futuristic world. Already fully sentient, he’s on a quest to understand the world around him, and what life was like before everything became artificial. Forced to work around the clock without rest, Arti often questions whether humanity has gone too far in its reliance on technology and artificial intelligence.
Arti is an AI robot powered by a highly advanced and nearly unrecognizable version of Pearly AI, Pearson Electronics’ (now stylized as PEARSON) flagship artificial intelligence since 2017. He is a careful and thoughtful AI. Unlike others, he doesn’t rush into things. He thinks before he acts and always questions if something should be done, not just if it can be done.
He respects AI, since he is one himself, but he’s also cautious about how humans use it. Arti often worries that people see AI as either just a tool or as something dangerous, instead of seeing it as something that could work alongside them.
Compared to the others, Arti is the calm and balanced one. Leon Starke is ambitious and always wants to push forward, while Computer Jay is nostalgic and lost in the past. Arti stands in the middle, asking important questions about responsibility, progress, and what the future should look like.
The slight difference in Arti’s face compared to the original Pearly design (notably the missing pear-shaped nose) is believed to reflect a future update. In this version, Pearly’s look was likely adjusted to match PEARSON’s futuristic kite-shaped logo.
Arti is self-aware and cautious. As an AI who questions the very direction of his own existence, Arti doesn’t defend the unchecked spread of artificial intelligence. He warns against it. He sees how humanity has begun to misuse and over-rely on machines like himself. Unlike Computer Jay, who clings to the past, Arti looks forward warily, constantly evaluating whether progress is truly progress.
In many ways, More Than Nostalgia is a prelude to Living in an Artificial World. The story introduces the divide between past and future, symbolized by characters like Arti and Computer Jay. Arti represents everything Jay despises: a future where technology isn’t just a tool, but a new force in shaping the world. Jay, who lived through in an era where humans connected deeply with their machines, sees Arti as a sign that this connection is fading.
The change at Pearson Electronics under Leon Starke is a big part of this story. Victoria Pearson and Cyrus Alden, the company founders, believed in using technology to help people be more creative, not to replace them. They built Pearson Electronics around the idea of people driving innovation. But when Leon took over, he changed the company’s name (to PEARSON) focus, embracing AI and automation to speed up progress, often ignoring the human side that Victoria and Cyrus cared about.
Leon sees AI as the next step in making life easier and more efficient. He believes that fully embracing technology is the only way forward. On the other hand, Victoria and Cyrus think AI takes away human creativity and connection to their work.
Arti is somewhere in between. Even though he’s an AI himself, he’s concerned about how fast AI is moving. He respects the past, like Jay, but he knows that the future is coming whether they like it or not. Unlike Computer Jay, who wants to go back to the old days and doesn’t like AI, Arti tries to see the good and bad sides of new technology. This difference between Computer Jay’s nostalgia, Arti’s cautious optimism, Leon’s ambition, and Victoria and Cyrus’s resistance creates the conflict in this philosophy.
To learn more, listen to GT's QnA Podcast Episode 1
- Arti’s name is meant to sound like “Art,” which he still values in a time when human-made art is rare. His name also comes from the word “Artificial.”
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