This panel, consisting of John Sullins, Robin Zebrowski, Antonio Chella, Eli McGraw, and Shannon Vallor will engage in questions around the role of sociomorphing and artificial phronesis in interpreting human-robot interactions, the ways that access to a robot’s inner speech allows for more ethical interactions and more accurate understanding of those interactions, and the role that these considerations have in XAI, ethical AI, and embodied social cognition in particular. We will also use this case study to discuss the OASIS framework offered by Seibt et al. in which sociomorphing is embedded, in order to see how the ethical stance of artificial phronesis invites more nuance into the social interaction, moving beyond mere simulation into enaction.