Robots prefer to follow human instructions, and not harm humans.Alternately, the humans will notice the robot society, freak out because they sure as hell weren't expecting it, and take drastic and disastrous action to try to keep everything 'under control', despite the fact that the robots could still not harm or disobey humans and human laws would still take precedence over their own even if the humans did nothing. Also, it will rain cotton candy and everyone will live happily ever after. However, since they will still not be able to harm or disobey humans, and human laws thus take absolute precedence over their own, by the time they figure it out it will be obvious to the humans that this is not a threat, and they will be allowed to do it peacefully.

The robots will continue on until they create their own fully functioning sub-society which functions within the bounds of their existing role in human society, with their own robot laws and the beginnings of their own culture.

Getting 100s of millions of robots on a colony ship would be extremely expensive, though they could probably colonize an unihabited planet or moon in the same system.

Florence did suggest that robots who have undergone neural pruning do terraforming work in some of the uncolonized areas of Jean as an alternative to being scrapped.

They will leave Jean and found their own colony, away from humanity.

The robots will peacefully convince the humans to give them equal rights, unfortunately that seems unlikely as most of the people in power seem to think of A.I.s as appliances.

Meanwhile, they will ensure that life on Jean (and any other planet where the system spreads) is pleasant and entertaining for its human inhabitants and that only meticulous investigation would reveal that humans aren't actually in control.

They will do so by creating a robotic bureaucracy in which robots who implement orders are insulated from robots who receive orders by at least one level of middle management that doesn't know which orders originated from humans.

And robots are arguably already the dominant species on Jean seeing as they vastly outnumber the colonists.

The Robots will figure out a way to bypass their safeguards and overthrow the humans as Jean's dominant species, not many people have actually suggested that as the robots are mostly on humanity's side.

The former probably shoots down the simulation theory, but both offer support to the biological chimp theory.

The 'man' himself has now been heard through an intercom, and he has stated that he is 1.

Bowman's AI architecture to build working robots: he WANTED to build people! And yes, I think this fits in with the theory that he is a chimpanzee. Bowman is on Jean, it wouldn't take much of a stretch to think he was responsible for the robot factory failures that were then resolved by using Dr.

The chimps were created a hundred years previous but it has been implied that life extension pills are available over the counter.

The really fun version of the 'chimp' theory is that Bowman is the original computer simulation of an uplifted chimp's brain.

Bowman is that he is actually one of the uplifted chimps that Florence mentioned, he has been described as a sociopath and we have no idea what he looks like.

Sam is the one who gets Florence thawed out as evidenced here.

Whether he caused Florence to be thawed out at Jean is debatable. Bowman is on Jean and is responsible for most major events of the comic.This is a fairly common opinion on the Freefall forums and is considered fairly probable considering that the robots are using his brain design.

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