{"slug": "reasoning-and-planning-with-dynamically-changing-norms", "title": "Reasoning and Planning with Dynamically Changing Norms", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence\n\n[Submitted on 26 May 2026]\n\n# Title:Reasoning and Planning with Dynamically Changing Norms\n\n[View PDF](/pdf/2605.27622)\n\n[HTML (experimental)](https://arxiv.org/html/2605.27622v1)\n\nAbstract: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.\n\n### References & Citations\n\nLoading...\n\n# Bibliographic and Citation Tools\n\nBibliographic Explorer\n\n*(*[What is the Explorer?](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/showcase.html#arxiv-bibliographic-explorer))\nConnected Papers\n\n*(*[What is Connected Papers?](https://www.connectedpapers.com/about))\nLitmaps\n\n*(*[What is Litmaps?](https://www.litmaps.co/))\nscite Smart Citations\n\n*(*[What are Smart Citations?](https://www.scite.ai/))# Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article\n\nalphaXiv\n\n*(*[What is alphaXiv?](https://alphaxiv.org/))\nCatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers\n\n*(*[What is CatalyzeX?](https://www.catalyzex.com))\nDagsHub\n\n*(*[What is DagsHub?](https://dagshub.com/))\nGotit.pub\n\n*(*[What is GotitPub?](http://gotit.pub/faq))\nHugging Face\n\n*(*[What is Huggingface?](https://huggingface.co/huggingface))\nScienceCast\n\n*(*[What is ScienceCast?](https://sciencecast.org/welcome))# Demos\n\n# Recommenders and Search Tools\n\nInfluence Flower\n\n*(*[What are Influence Flowers?](https://influencemap.cmlab.dev/))\nCORE Recommender\n\n*(*[What is CORE?](https://core.ac.uk/services/recommender))# arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators\n\narXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.\n\nBoth individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.\n\nHave an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? [ Learn more about arXivLabs](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/index.html).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reasoning-and-planning-with-dynamically-changing-norms", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27622", "published_at": "2026-05-28 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 04:32:16.263631+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics", "ai-agents", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["SocialBot"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reasoning-and-planning-with-dynamically-changing-norms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reasoning-and-planning-with-dynamically-changing-norms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reasoning-and-planning-with-dynamically-changing-norms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reasoning-and-planning-with-dynamically-changing-norms.jsonld"}}