Carol, "can you take me to my eggs."
Zosia, "certainly!"
Carol destroys her eggs when she gets there
IMMEDIATE PROBLEM SOLVED
It's been made pretty damn obvious that they have different tiers of biological imperative, and spreading the virus trumps everything else. So no, they could refuse her.
Carol, "can you set up everything you need to create robots that can pick fruit and give me a simple [YES]/[NO] prompt for them to do so? ...?
It was stated that they couldn't build and program it. They're not a program you can find a loophole in, they're an intelligent being holding to the spirit of their limitations.
It's arguably a lot easier to terraform a planet when we don't have to worry about messing up and killing off our entire species. Though the are some who would make the argument we're doing so anyway
When a hurricane took power out at a Florida veterinary clinic last year, the Lightning’s giant battery powered it back up. After an elderly man was stranded in California because his electric wheelchair’s battery ran out, a Lightning made it operational again. And during the devastating Kentucky floods in 2022, Ford deployed two Lightnings as mobile generators to support cleanup efforts.
Can't speak for all of them, but type I does fit