"It certainly could be. We'll get in touch with her."

He nods. "Now, a thing that we might need to do is—test, in a way, your personhood? I'm sorry, this must be horribly offensive."

She pauses for a few moments, thinking about it.

"It's fine, sir," she concludes. "I'm not offended."

"Oh, good," he says, with obvious relief. "Of course, there'll be naysayers and people who think it's just, you know, faked, but it should be enough."

    "Yes, sir."

    "Do you have any ideas for the test? Deskyl thinks that having me translate poetry might be a good one."

"There's a famous one called the Turing Test where a person has to talk to you via text or something and be unable to distinguish you from a regular person."

    "My kind of robot isn't intended to be indistinguishable from a human, sir. I could probably do it anyway, I suppose, but... ... ... I don't want to."

...gosh!

"Why not?"

"It's not what I'm meant to be."

"Well you don't sound impossible to be a human? I don't think someone would be able to tell the difference over text," he says, obliviously.

    "I'll try it if you want me to, sir. But if they ask what I am, I'm not going to hide it."

"Oh, no, you don't need to hide it at all. And they shouldn't ask, if they ask the experiment is invalidated anyway."

    "Deskyl still thinks it's a bad test. She says it's like - if you had to prove to someone from a different country that you were a person by convincing them that you were from their country."

He furrows his eyebrows. "I'm afraid I don't really understand? Do you think you don't currently sound like a person?"

"I sound like a person, sir, I just don't sound like a human."

"There are six billion of us, I'm sure you sound like some human."

   He says: There are six billion of us, I'm sure you sound like some human.

...yeah, did you not know that?

    ...no, Ma'am.

Well. It's true.

    "Oh. Well, I suppose."

He nods and smiles. "I'm sure you'll do just fine, just be yourself."

"Yes sir."

"Do you have any preferences about when and how to do this test?"

"What are the options for how it might be done, sir?"

"You will need to be supervised, of course, to make sure no foul play is happening, and you'll be in a room that prevents wireless signal transmission. You'll probably be typing into a special computer or something but if you have any other opinions and ideas I'm sure people would be okay with implementing them."

"Yes, sir. That will be fine."

"Excellent! That's just marvelous!" he says, beaming hugely.