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Morning Edition · Tuesday, November 10, 2026Published at 1:14 AM EST · New York
NormGym tests whether agents can infer unwritten social rules through interaction, not just state them
The new arXiv benchmark targets the ability to pick up socially enforced expectations in unfamiliar communities and adjust behavior, which most existing norm tests do not measure.
A paper posted to arXiv on November 10, NormGym, defines normative competence as the ability to infer socially enforced expectations from interaction and adjust behavior to match. The authors argue that agents need this to operate in unfami…
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