Reasoning and Planning with Dynamically Changing Norms

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 26 May 2026] Reasoning and Planning with Dynamically Changing Norms Taylor Olson, Roberto Salas-Damian, Kenneth D. Forbus 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. Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, dataset included in anc Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Symbolic Computation (cs.SC) ACM classes: F.4.3; I.2.3; I.2.4 Cite as: arXiv:2605.27622 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2605.27622v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.27622 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Taylor Olson [view email] [v1] Tue, 26 May 2026 19:39:43 UTC (809 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Ancillary files (details): all_synthetic_data_labeled.csv Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-05 Change to browse by: cs cs.SC References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)