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I often wonder how we impart this kind of knowledge to AI.

Imagine someone steps into a subway carriage with only one other passenger in it. They're not likely to sit directly beside or opposite the other person. Would a robot follow this kind of etiquette?

I suppose if you emphasize personal space in the training data, but would the developers realize they need to do that?

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> Would a robot follow this kind of etiquette?

If you train it on CCTV footage from inside of subway carriages: yes, I suppose.

I mean, that actually is A good point about training data. There is more publicly available data of people acting weird than acting normal. We don't usually upload videos of people just existing.

Will robots be super awkward and/or aggressive?

No, we pay far more attention to people acting weirdly because it's interesting. 99% of CCTV footage will be uneventful and normal.