Machine not person unless society says so
A machine or individual isn't a person until society collectively declares it one. This requires the machine to have a gender, flesh-and-blood body, ability to feel pain etc. If a machine lacks any of these it won't be treated as a person.

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Dwight Van De Vate Jr, 1971.

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