diff --git a/code/game/machinery/computer/ai_core.dm b/code/game/machinery/computer/ai_core.dm
index 26e3f776053..6421fd284de 100644
--- a/code/game/machinery/computer/ai_core.dm
+++ b/code/game/machinery/computer/ai_core.dm
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@
 					SSticker.mode.remove_revolutionary(brain.brainmob.mind, 1)
 
 				var/mob/living/silicon/ai/A = new /mob/living/silicon/ai(loc, laws, brain)
+				// Stop holding onto the laws so we don't qdel them and make the AI randomly lose its laws when GC gives up and hard deletes them.
+				laws = null
 				if(A) //if there's no brain, the mob is deleted and a structure/AIcore is created
 					A.rename_self("AI", 1)
 			SSblackbox.record_feedback("amount", "ais_created", 1)