I don't think that "tendencies" is right wording here. Like a calculator has a keyboard and a processor. The keyboard provides digits for multiplication, but the processor doesn't have any own tendencies.
But it still could define context
The processor has tendencies. It is subject to the law of gravity and many other physical tendencies. That is why I mentioned the fact that the parts of an AI are physical. They are bodies, and have many bodily tendencies, no matter what algorithms are programmed into them.
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