Would a true artificial intelligence be a person?

As in the consciousness created has all the same qualities as our own: imagination, empathy, agency etc.
The only difference is that it is inorganic and constructed.

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Wraithorn · 51-55, M

I would want to know if that AI has the ability to learn things beyond what it was programmed for. I would want to know how it views itself in relation to the rest of the world.

If I for example create an AI that could be viewed as it's birth. If it's intelligence, it's mind, grows and interacts and feels emotion eventually then it might be approaching having a mind of it's own. I would then wonder if it is my right to switch it off.

Scientists have already created artificial biological life so I suspect that we will one day have AI that is both artificial and living and we will then have some ethical decisions to make.

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

for sure. it would just have a inorganic brain. it would be programmed but only to the extent we humans are programmed

Wraithorn · 51-55, M

@UnparalleledMonster: What I would like to know is, if an AI with a Human type mind was to gain access to the internet, then would it's mind become corrupted ? It would suddenly have access to all our information and it could spread it's memory into many servers. It would suddenly be superhuman in intelligence. What would happen ? The internet can't be switched off so it might give us a bit of a problem.

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@Wraithorn:

I guess that depends if the AI mind was a supercomputer or just an inorganic brain with the ability to process, retain, access and attend to information the same way ours does