The AIs and Player in my opinion, should be equals.
If you can do something, the AIs should be able to do the same exact thing. Climb a ladder? Not safe, the AI can too.
It should be able to adapt to whatever you do, and I feel the current AI wouldn't really be able to be tweaked in order to do that. In my opinion, at least.
I get that this is an old screenshot from the Hello Neighbor 2 website, but it's similar to what I want for the AI in the future.