King's College London

The development of machines that can tell stories in order to interact with humans or other artificial agents has significant implications in the area of trust and AI. Even more so if we expect such machines to be transparent and explain their reasoning when we interrogate them to see if they should be held accountable. One of these implications is the ability of machines to use stories in order to deceive others, thus undermining the relation of trust between humans and machines. In this paper we explore from the perspective of an argumentation-based dialogue game what it means for a machine to deceive by telling stories