In Artificial Intelligence we see the same argument of what truly makes you human, as we saw with AIs in Neuromancer. In Artificial Intelligence we are presented with the idea of this little boy, David, having all the physical attributes of a human and the ability to love like a human, but not physically being human. He has the longing to be loved in return and to become human so that this can happen. In Neuromancer we see this same situation occur with the two AIs Wintermute and Neuromancer, Wintermute has knowledge and memory, but lacks his own identity and personality. On the other hand Neuromancer has the personality and the capability to appear in a body that Wintermute longs for. But we learn that having one of the characteristics without the other, doesn’t make you human.
Another possible argument about the body in relation to technology presented in AI could be the idea of freedom. David is built as an android child and given to a family to test their creation with real humans. David, although he has the ability to love, is restricted by his lack of understanding. He is an AI, but doesn’t understand that he is. In the end of the movie David searches for the Blue Fairy that he remembered from Pinocchio so he can be made into a real boy. He ends up getting stuck in a car and repeating his wish of being made into a real boy. The city freezes over and 2,000 years later David and Teddy are found and David walks up to the frozen fairy, touches it, and it shatters. This illustrates the idea that David is restricted by his inability to understand that he is not real. No matter how many times that he heard it, he didn’t have the ability to comprehend. David had a lack of freedom because he was restricted by technology.