Superhuman artificial intelligence can improve human decision-making by increasing novelty
Abstract
Although advances in artificial intelligence (AI) created superhuman AI systems, little is understood about how such AI systems will affect human decision-making. We examine historical changes in decision-making by professional Go players over the recent seven decades, focusing on changes after the advent of superhuman AI (e.g., AlphaGo). We find that superhuman AI may have improved human decision-making, and that this improvement was associated with increased novelty in decision-making as human players were encouraged to make decisions previously unobserved in history. Our findings illustrate that superhuman AI can encourage novel decision-making by humans in certain domains and suggest that innovative thinking can spread from machines to humans and among humans themselves, possibly improving human decision-making in those domains.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- March 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2303.07462
- Bibcode:
- 2023PNAS..12014840S
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence;
- Economics - General Economics;
- 68T01;
- 68T05;
- 68T35;
- 68T99;
- I.2.0;
- I.2.1;
- I.2.6;
- I.2.m
- E-Print:
- This paper is published in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214840120 Minor edits to v1 include the addition of watermark and link to the published paper in the footer