How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI (opens in new tab)

Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ngo.From March 9th to 15th 2016, Go players around the world stayed up to watch their game fall to AI. Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, commonly understood to be the world’s strongest player at the time, with a convincing 4-1 score.This event “rocked” the Go world, but its impact on the culture was initially unclear. In Chess, for instance, computers have not meaningfully automated away human jobs. Human Chess...