Katherine Nigh

Katherine Nigh or "Knight" as she is referred by her colleagues is a leader of an extremist anti-AI group within the Andromeda Initiative. Though her motivations against synthetics is to ensure they do not pose a threat to the galaxy, make her believe that she is in the right, it also hides a misguided individual, attempting to find closure in her horrifying past with artificial intelligence.

Mass Effect Andromeda
After Ryder and SAM QEC link is nearly severed by a piece a malware embedded in Dr. Aridana's calculations. Upon investigating the new anti-AI sentiments on the Nexus, Ryder meets a hack that hijack the Avina VI, Ryder is given an email and destination in the Badlands on Kadara.

Knight she introduces herself, glad to see the Pathfinder 'freed' from SAM. She apologizes that Alec Ryder did this to the Pathfinder, believing that the Initiative's use in AI will lead to self-destruction. Knight explained that she wrote the virus programmed to destroy the connection between the Pathfinder and SAM. When she is asked that is SAM is dead, Knight refuses to acknowledge it a a person. She instead chooses to dehumanize the AI, referring to SAM as it, stating he has been reduced. In the Milky Way she was folly in attempting to merge an organic mind with a synthetic intelligence in a black ops project called Overlord. During the experiment many died, her son, Alain was injured, and the test subject was consumed.

Seeing that the Pathfinders pose a similar threat Knight vows to end what she calls monstrosities. When questioned on why she joined the Initiative, an organization that uses AI, Knight explains that she wanted to escape from the Milky Way and originally thought the AIs were shackled and used for research. When faced with this news, she affirms it as her mission to end it, or as she calls it "that a firefighter doesn't run away from a fire". Its her belief that the Initiative is misguided and intends