This paper address the problem of how to approach the question of moral status of autonomous intelligent machines, in particular intelligent autonomous robots. Inspired by phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophical traditions, (1) it proposes a shift in epistemology of robotics (from objectivism to phenomenology, from object to subject-object relations, from the individual to the social and cultural, and from status to change) and (2) analyses what it is we care about when we care about the moral status robots. This give us an approach that implies epistemological anthropocentrism, but not necessarily moral anthropocentrism; whether or not we want to include robots in our world depends on the kind of moral and social relations that emerge between humans and other entities.
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