Quote Originally Posted by Rockphed View Post
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.
Well, wolves do make for better starting material than automated machinery, but some of it is just maturity. We have Florence, then mature factory-one robots like Sawtooth, then near-threshold robots like Tangent and the bomb factory, and lastly the three year olds.