Are alien person

If one is a person it is morally wrong to buy or sell them or use them for our own
interest
Deserve the same amount of respect and protection
Person = any entity that has the moral right of self-determination
Star Trek : Is Commander Data a Person ?
Anything that is sentient should be granted the status of personhood
Sentient :
Intelligence
Self awareness
Consciousness

All three conditions should be met

One can be intelligent as the machine may be programmed sophisticated with all
the knowledge but it may or maynot have self awareness or consciousness
Self awareness

Aware of own mental acitivity

Gives certain abilities to critically reflect upon my mental states and to make
judgments about those states
Lacking self awareness means lacking the ability to judge that something we are
doing may be unworthy objective in a certain situation or to judge that our belief is
unjustified.
Machine can be programmed in such a way that it can show it has self awareness
but that doesnt really means that it has self awareness.
Some animals does something that human mind think is creative but they repeat
samething time and again making it uncreative because being creative means to
monitor ones lower level activities so that when a behavior becomes unproductive,
one does not continually repaeat it, but recognizes its futility and tries something
new, something creative.
Consciousness s
Being organism means being consicouss

Computers cannot be said to be conscious merely by virtue of the fact that it has
computational properties, merely because it is able to manipulate linguistic symbols
at the syntactic level.
Computation of such kinds can be possible with the lengthy codes and programming
already built into the computer.
No clue what makes humans conscious so no idea what would have to be built into
an machine to make it conscious