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Would this being then be a person with the rights accorded to biological life?
I think so.
I also think it's still a long way off before we get there.
Well, the biological Al who used to hang around Answermug wasn't sentient, so I can't imagine why an artificial simulation of him would be...;-D...
I hope they will not be programmed to be pedantic.
Please expand your reasoning supporting this.
Not as we know it.