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[The Culture/The Matrix] How would The Culture respond to encountering a planet with the Matrix scenario, that is where AI have effectively subjugated the original dominant organic species into a virtual simulation without their knowledge? This also assume a freed minds resistance exists as well.
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A mind may come along and effector the Matrix, making it more agreeable to negotiating.

The Culture could offer the Matrix a source of power and safe new home in exchange for handing over the simulation. Prob just run the Matrix as a subroutine in a Minds own consciousness. 

Contact could drop agents into the simulation to set people free and start an uprising. The Matrix may never even know its been infiltrated and there already seem to be a few independent AI running around.

Could also take over the Matrix and load it into a simulation of its own. The Matrix goes on believing its running battery farms, while the humans are given the option of the real...