: Don't feel bad. I just replayed it again in preparation for Halo 5, and I
: still don't know what was going on.
: Oh, BB is an AI character from the Kilo 5 trilogy of books. He's an asshole
: and deliberately made himself shaped like a black box because he thinks a
: human form is dumb.

He thought that AIs mimicking human form was dumb.

I imagine that he was OK with humans having human form :-)