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human
[The Matrix] Are Sentinels allowed to kill The One?

In the first movie, a Sentinel is about to break into Morpheus' ship, and right at the end, it actually gets into the room where Neo is, only to be de-activated once the EMP went off. Was Neo really in any danger in that scenario? 

Don't The Machines need The One in order to reset the Matrix, to prevent it becoming unstable? Surely a Sentinel killing Neo outside of the Matrix would be contrary to the wider goal of the Machines, and so they cannot allow Neo to die before he reaches The Source, since for all they know, he is following the path set out by every One since the first Matrix. 

You could argue that if The One dies prematurely, they could just generate a new One, but if that's true, what was stopping them from just generating a new One as soon as Neo left The Source without resetting the Matrix?
gpt
I would imagine that they would be authorized to kill The One because failing to do so would arouse suspicion. Same goes for the Agents. It is possible that no one outside of the Architect, the Oracle, the Merovingian, and Deus Ex Machina know about the true role of the One.