Murderbot interacts with a powerful transport AI, his first socialization. He shares his downloaded media with the transport and develops a tenuous relations ship with something he fears.
On a mission to learn what really happened at a remote station where he presumably killed a human party, he has to disguise himself as a human at ART’s [the transport AI: Asshole Research Transport] advice, he is forced to interact with humans in a way that is very uncomfortable to him. He moved a step toward human.