Quote Originally Posted by lord_khaine View Post
Well. Its not like the humans are in direct danger. So far the light has just gone because the station is at a power conservation state.
But there is emergency generators. And plenty of skilled technicians. Who by all accounts are better suited for this than a green candidate who dont know the hardware.
My point was (albeit badly made) that Florence can see all those factors and realize that rushing in isn't going to solve anything; the robots cannot. If there was an air-leak on the station and somebody needed to rush around in a space suit to get all the stranded humans, Florence would brook no opposition to her doing it. If the reactor needed to be tweaked by hand she would probably bite a human to get the tools to go do it herself (although at that point she would be operating so far outside her safeguards that her creators would probably notice). But a nebulous "the lights are out, probably because the reactor experienced an emergency shut-down of some sort" situation doesn't trigger her "protect humans" training.

Ultimately, I think Florence is a much better made "AI" than the robots. If nothing else, she is more waterproof than most of them.