It's his current reputation, but Connor just doesn't hear about it and doesn't care about it because Lieutenant Anderson doesn't call him that, so he has no reason to associate it with himself.

This news sets his LED spinning on yellow for a moment while his decision algorithms suggest and dismiss several new courses of action. After a couple seconds, it returns to blue.

"I'm an android," he says simply. "I'm a tool to be used by humans. If there's no one in charge and no command structure, then I will do what is needed by the community as a whole."

His processors can figure it out without a human handler. But he isn't "free". What does that term even mean, when thinking about himself?