No. Abominable intelligences were forbidden after the Dark Age of technology. Humanity was nearly destroyed by such things.
[ Which is kinda sorta bullshit because machine spirits are totally kind of AIs, at least on the ship and Titan level. ]

We also used subjugated people, but only if they were criminal or resistant during compliances. Most were not, fortunately, as people tend to see the utility in rejoining the lost branches of humanity after five thousand years of horror.