Reading the Room: Foundations, Design, and Challenges of Normative Competence in LLMs

arXiv cs.AIOctober 9, 2026en

arXiv:2610.10906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human communities are governed by normative systems: shared standards that produce \textit{norms} dictating acceptable behavior, enforced through community sanctioning. Aligning increasingly autonomous AI systems with these norms is a central alignment challenge, complicated by the fact that norms are vast in number, change quickly, and are often arbitrary (e.g., dress or language conventions). Thus, alignment requires \textit{normative competence}: the ability to discern from interaction alone what norms a community enforces without relying on static pretrained knowledge. We introduce a multi-agent community debate setting, where access to deb

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