~> An "artificial person" is not a real person any more than a
robot is a
person
~> no matter what some may read into the "law".

Actually it is.  What you probably means by that second use of "person" was
"human being," which is not the same as "person."  If
you had said that an
"artificial person" is not a "natural person" that
would have also been
correct, but then you would have seen the emptiness of your own statement.

 
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