We will happily disempower ourselves: Go edition (opens in new tab)

From a fantastic post by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez on LessWrong about the use of AI by Go players: The appealing, exciting archetype of a cheater is one that uses covert, elaborate methods to get outside information and fraudulently obtain prize money or prestigious titles. Instead, we learned from the many examples of cheating and player confessions that idle curiosity and laziness were the dominant reasons for AI use in our school. Our students would often set out to play a normal game of Go, but ...