How does AI choose Ideologie

[sendos]

AI's mostly choose same ideology as the player with the most influence over them. Then friendship beforehand becomes a factor. Pariah states often choose different ideologies but eventually they end up following the crowd. Some say that AI mainly chooses Order and that might be the case because they usually expand a lot at that time.

It's all dependent on global tourism. Keep an eye out for those who have the most tourism.