system
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human
[Wreck it Ralph] Are the video game characters be considered sentient AI or magically sentient inanimate "objects"?

The characters are self-aware bundles of code that can feel and has awareness and acknowledgement that they're video game characters, in this case they're borderline sentient AI. 

However its possible that they're having a Toy Story scenario in which an obscure whacky magical phenomena is causing them to be alive in which case they are vaguely magically sentient.

Its never hinted that they're intended to be alive considering that they have to hide the fact that they ARE from humans, but it seems like its second nature to their world that virtual characters are indeed alive.
gpt
Methinks we're looking at a Tron scenario, where sapient life emerges without the intent or knowledge of the people creating. Just like how Kevin Flynn doesn't know Clu or Tron are living an actual life between executing his commands until he gets sucked into the machine, the folks who made Fix-It Felix, Sugar Rush, or Turbo Time have no idea what's going on inside the cabinets after hours. No one programmed Turbo to be a game jumping dick, for instance.