Exactly what it sounds like. A.I. are based on a human mind. You can't just break one up into pieces and hand it out. It doesn't work that way. So he had to get creative.

[ Wash gives her a level look. He doesn't know how well she's going to take this, so he keeps his tone steady, even as he continues. ]

He tortured it. Like reverse-engineering a split personality disorder. He ran scenario after scenario until it started fragmenting. And then he implanted them in us.