"She's an artificial intelligence. So she's not a human, but still a person? You can talk to her, if you want, she'll hear you."

A patch of the wall glows faintly, and Baby's neutral-to-pleasant voice speaks out of the air: "I will be happy to speak to you at any time, Brix nó Balm de Marsilikos, but I do not wish to interrupt your conversation with Andrew Wells."