An intelligent agent should be able to disobey the norms of its environment. A smart device should be able to refuse compliance with a user request. A chatbot should not be sycophantic. We define disobedience as an act of intentional norm violation and we postulate the distinctions among six  types of disobedience: direct violation, justified exception, civil disobedience,  trolling, non-compliance and whistleblowing. Each type requires a distinct monitoring workflow, but most importantly each requires a reasoning process. How does a machine decide to disobey and how should an environment handle this via a good governance framework. This talk considers the need for machine disobedience, the types of disobedience and the dual perspective: agents use reason based practical reasoning to decide whether to obey or disobey, while the governance framework processes observable outcomes and routes them into differentiated institutional responses.

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