User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Fairy Tail Chapter 494: The Hill Extending Towards Tomorrow Review/@comment-6401212-20160717094147/@comment-7418318-20160717100853

If his information storage device is busted, he is effectively dead. Sure you can rebuild or replace the broken parts, but with all the information that made up his personality being lost, that would be a new person.

So yes an AI or machine-man can "die" too, IF you consider such a being as alive to begin with.