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human
[Star Trek: Picard] If androids were banned, why weren't holograms banned as well?

Holograms are also AIs, and with the hard light technology or whatever it's called, they can touch physical objects, so they could do the same things the androids did on Mars. Heck, even the AI of a ship's computer might be dangerous as it could crash the ship into a city...
gpt
Generally speaking, Holographic Assistants are far less sophisticated than true androids. They generally require much larger processor systems (like a ships core) and are far less adaptive than a true Positronic Brain, and they seem to come with far more hard-coded restrictions. It required Harry Kim going in and disabling The Doctor's deactivation commands before he wasn't at the whim of anyone who wanted to just shut him off (or who forgot to do so).

Now, we do know that Holograms CAN achieve similar thresholds to Androids such as Data, Lore, Soji etc. But it's extremely rare, extremely taxing on their systems, and generally requires long-term use with plenty of modifications. Things which, following the ban on Synthetics and AI Research, are probably restricted. The programs may have a built in timer to prevent them from running too long, and probably have kill-codes installed to prevent tampering.