Towards a Semantic Theory of Robotic Non-cooperation

This paper explores the notion of non-cooperation by a robot or an intelligent agent within a HARMS hybrid-team project. There is surprisingly little research on this topic which should actually acquire a considerable urgency in the light of cyber security and threats. To understand non-cooperation, one has to define cooperation more substantively than it has been done. We approach non-cooperation on the basis of a rule-based, non-statistical, semantical approach, where meaning is viewed comprehensively, approximating human comprehension, at a practical grain size that humans used to communicate, rather than selectively on the basis of what is easy to formalize. To the extent the reader is new to or familiar with semantics, the paper can be read as a position paper or an implementation outline because, of course, most position papers are a little bit of both.