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Trouble with this is we first need to grasp what is and isn’t AI in the hands of absolute luddites.

A high end machine spirit we can probably produce today. We’ve doorbells linked to cameras that activate on pressing. We’ve CCTV cameras that can self track whatever sets them off.

How much more sophistication is needed to link such to a trigger?

Our militaries also have IFF, and as such, we could already craft what Astartes would recognise as a Machine Spirit, without getting anywhere near sentient machines.

For the IG? Think Google Maps and Self Driving Cars. Extend that just the tiniest bit, to where the software can recognise terrain it’s parameters say ‘no’ to, and we’re pretty much there.

We’ll also need to dig into Servitors, and their possibilities.

The Astartes Nunter? It has Servitor guided missiles, with the Servitor actually being inside the missile.

That black ball thing in a Landraider? I suspect it has similar ‘wetware’, because linking the system to an actual brain, or at least brain tissue, has long been an acceptable alternative to actual Machine Intelligence.

Titans probably have the most sophisticated version, because they’re controlled via Mind Impulse Unit. As a result, the Princeps literally becomes imprinted within the device, same with Imperial Knights.

As a result, they eventually become AI of a sort, albeit with an organic base. This means the machines with the most advanced, or at least complex, Machine Spirits can become capable of independent action. As well Rynn’s Might, there’s another example (which I think was a Crusader of the Black Templar’s) allowing itself to be boarded, before sealing its hatches and self destructing, taking enemy leaders out.

At least, that’s what we’re told. Never let it be said that the Imperium and Adeptus Mechanicus are above appalling hypocrisy.