Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents

• https://www.pnas.org/content/119/3/e2106028118
• https://www.deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/Spurious-normativity-enhances-learning-of-compliance-and-enforcement-behavior-in-artificial-agents

Norm (social)

By using Reinforcement learning, this paper argues that having a norm, even if it’s not so useful, can be good for the society because they can help agents “learn how to enforce and comply with norms in general”.