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Reasoning and Planning with Dynamically Changing Norms

Researchers have developed a new approach enabling AI agents to reason and plan using dynamically changing social norms, addressing a gap in human-AI interaction safety. The method introduces a defeasible calculus for resolving normative conflicts and uses evolving norms as guard rails on AI plans. The approach was demonstrated theoretically with formal proofs and empirically through the SocialBot AI agent on a natural language dialogue task.

read1 min publishedMay 28, 2026
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Abstract:To safely interact with humans, AI agents must both know our norms and consider them during planning. However, such norm-guided planning has been less explored, only within communities of artificial agents, and has ignored the dynamic nature of norms. This paper instead presents an approach to guiding planning with dynamically changing norms in a human-AI setting. We contribute a defeasible calculus for resolving normative conflicts and an approach to using such dynamically changing norms as guard rails on plans. We theoretically demonstrate our approach with formal proofs and empirically with an AI agent, SocialBot, on a natural language dialogue task.

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