“Person” seems to be used here as the philosophical term meaning something like “sentient entity with moral value”. Personhood is not limited to human beings.
ETA: Also, wrt the AI itself, the directly next two articles in this sequence explicitly deal with the issue of making the AI itself nonsentient, as I’m surprised to find a comment from myself in 2011 pointing out. Did you really not read the surrounding articles?
“Person” seems to be used here as the philosophical term meaning something like “sentient entity with moral value”. Personhood is not limited to human beings.
ETA: Also, wrt the AI itself, the directly next two articles in this sequence explicitly deal with the issue of making the AI itself nonsentient, as I’m surprised to find a comment from myself in 2011 pointing out. Did you really not read the surrounding articles?