You want to argue that a synthetic creation, programmed for a function, isn't alive.

A simple animal has been evolved to instinctively find food and reproduce, nothing more. Yet it is alive.

However. A sentient animal, such as a human, makes choices independent of instinct. This is free will.

Likewise. Other sentient life has the ability to choose, independently, and perhaps even contrary to any programming.

Now you will type like this

"but you only think you have a choice because you were programmed to

so I'm clearly better because I'm an ugly bag of mostly water"

So your question, and my answer, is useless here.