UN Colonial Mortal Dictata

The UN Colonial Mortal Dictata is a human piece of legislation or code of ethics which was extended to the colonies in 2165. The Dictata is known to prohibit the use of a living human's brain as the seed for an AI matrix, as the brain is destroyed in the process. Dr. Catherine Halsey is known to have violated the code on several occasions, most notably when flash cloning herself in order to create Cortana.