[There's knowing that you're outclassed, and then there's having it rubbed in your face. Thanks, Cortana.]

Internal or external?

[Theta or anyone who might be within fifty yards of a brawl between a horror movie monster, a man-made titan, and their onboard supercomputers?]

[Private to Cortana]

For whatever it's worth, in my experience, killing a human doesn't usually kill the ride-along AI, even if they are a fragment. I know lethal measures are a last resort, but I've fought the Meta enough times to know he's a fucking horror movie monster. He keeps getting up when he shouldn't and when you least expect it.

[Let's double-tap before we get close enough to start removing AI chips, shall we]