Because it is a mind of its own. Don’t tell anyone this, but I seriously doubt people who say AIs are not alive. And I even know how to make an AI alive. In fact, that’ll be what my masters will be on (once I get to that point).
That is terrifying. To everyone except me perhaps, because I have this panpsychist belief that all things are alive.
“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the Cosmos, that makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘have you heard this?’” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson.