Not counting Hero Assault for obvious reasons.

AI could only control heroes in the PSP version of BF2 without mods until Patch 3 of the collection.

unless friendly ai can also play as the hero, then fuck yes!!!

opposing ai has always been able to play as their corresponding hero. even the psp version allowed this.

If you mean does the AI appear in Instant Action, this image was captured in Instant Action.
Gamemode: Conquest
Era: Clone Wars

On instant action as well?

I won't lie, i kinda wish we had an option to turn AI heroes on and off at our leisure in BF2, but at least it still got in either way.

That's probably an odd take, but if you find out that option exists somewhere, let me know.

yep, I had a AI count dooku & mace windu on Geonosis, sweet.

I never found it listed in the notes, but I did find the AI Grievous after taking this screenshot.

I think they actually did.