"Ah." It's an interesting, if primitive, way to go about things. "Digital immortality, or does the personality not survive the transfer? If it doesn't, I could see it as a method of execution." Lose a criminal, gain a new, more useful citizen. Barbaric, but not without benefits. "Is that why you and Delta take on humanoid forms?"

Fortunately, digital information transfers like this are almost totally devoid of underlying emotion that's not specifically added in. It's very hard for an AI to tell if another AI is lying or concealing part of the truth unless they're specifically picking things apart, and Babbage just isn't the suspicious type.

One bit does bear expansion, however. "Explain your neural pathway issues. Is it a loss of data? Or just a general corruption?"