[That... is pretty vague, yeah. Well, to start with, he'll pull from the hypothetical Hershel just presented:]

...I think if he really is an AI, it's going to be a lot more difficult to do anything about Zero. Calhoun by himself could probably run the whole operation if that's the case.

[He may have even been programmed to run all of this solo. After all, how many times had they ever actually seen Zero?]