How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI — LessWrong
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Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ngo. …
x How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI — LessWrong Gaming (videogames/tabletop) MATS Program AI Curated 2026 Top Fifty: 41 % 701 How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez 1st May 2026 9 min read 77 701 Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ng o. 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 o
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