Ah, but now you have the opportunity to correct me. Or would you prefer I wander around in blissful error, to be insulting at some future date?

[His tone is dry, but it's not insincere. Not that many people can tell the difference. He shrugs again.]

'Alive' has so many connotations. Skulduggery is a skeleton and he's alive. Why shouldn't an AI be alive as well? You certainly have a soul, or something close enough that the difference is meaningless.

[And he can say that with fact, since he's looking at it.]