Will AI now take defeated Pretender's provinces?

[Ballbarian]

One of the huge advantages that a human has over the AI (at least in Dom2 single player) is that when a nation has been defeated due to dominion loss all of it's provinces turn independent and are left completely undefended. As a human, I can absorb them into my domain with a single commander, but the other AI's will never take them. Has this been addressed in Dom3?

I am hoping that either they will now see the empty independent province as a juicy target, or that the indy recruitables of the province will take up the defense and reset the province as a valid target in the eyes of the remaining opponents.