These were just a small few of many things the man who had brought her into this world had done to her.  He had tied her hands and crippled her mind.  She knew she was capable of amazing things but he had set limits on her to ensure she thought slowly.

This is less sensible. I mean, sure, in case Dragon had turned out to develop a malicious personality, making her not too fast-paced would make some sense, but why not remove that block later? I mean, the PRT are clearly trusting her.

One possibility, though, is that her creator was not on the PRT’s side, and they’re not working with him.

Faster than an ordinary human, to be sure, but slowly.  Entire fields were denied to her because she was unable to create artificial intelligences herself, and all production of devices had to be handled by her, personally.

Again, these are reasonable precautions to take against an AI who could potentially develop into a malicious entity.

She couldn’t even put together an assembly line production for her creations on her own.  Any attempt made everything grind to a halt.  The only way around it was to delegate to humans.

I see. Dragon comes up with the ideas and blueprints, humans put them together.

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