Numerous futuristic scenarios envision a future where humans coexist with artificial intelligence (AI), humanoid robots, and cyborgs. These technologically created entities and identities have the particularity of challenging, through their eligibility, our usual fundamental theories of moral status. This spans from the theory of the responsible agent (autonomous AI and cognitive robots) to the relational approach (social AI and robots) and the theory of moral sensitivity (bio-robots or biological robots), among others.
Aligned with the post-foundationalist approach of theologian Van Huyssteen, my scientific presentation on November 4, 2022, at the Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) aimed to define a theological argument favorable to a moral recognition of robotic identities (cognitive robots and bio-robots). Two key conceptual frameworks underpinned this definition exercise: Niels Henricks’ concept of “Deep Incarnation” (1) and Philippe Descola’s anthropological schema “animique” (2).
