Originally Posted by
Didactic
AI isn't a person? By what metric, exactly. Being in possession of sapience equal to or greater than a human most assuredly makes one 'a person' by the argument that our chief distinction from mere 'animals' is our capacity for abstract reason and self awareness, among other things.
Moreover, it's arguable that it won't be in possession of 'instinct' insofar as you define it as an a priori response to a particular stimulus; even if it is 'programmed' to, say, prioritise its self preservation the fact that this is an innate feature at the time of its inception is entirely classifiable as 'instinct. Regarding emotion, it could also be said that AI is the search for a computer system of human levels of cognitive ability; it may well be that AI which we create in our own image may possess such a capacity either by virtue of its similarity to a human intelligence, or because some level of emotional response to a stimulus ensures a more ethical behaviour model (e.g. AI that are designed to 'care' about humans under their watch).