In the Anarchy Zones, nobody cares, and they are truly equal. AIs match in personalty with humans, which they were based on. Ranging from Expensive to Real Expensive. This is a privately funded group of crack agents who specialize in covert operations. If you need ambassadors' daughters rescued, secret documents obtained, or hostages rescued, this is who you want.
Agents tend to fall into two categories.
Wild-eyed whipcracking stunt pilot Harrison Ford types, or impeccably dressed suave, slick foreign accent Sean Connery types. Both have large egos and guns to match. NSSAs are mostly human. They used to handle the courier jobs, getting packages from one place to another like an armored car. However, they were nudged out of the market by the DPW, and the government dismantled the branch for budget reasons.