Can artificial intelligence now influence human decision-making? - Dataconomy

Artificial intelligence has made many breakthroughs in the last decade, including beating champion players at Jeopardy!, learning to identify cats, seeing better than humans, and driving cars autonomously. A new study (PDF) by researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Data61, along with the Australian National University and researchers from Germany, has determined that AI can influence human decision-making. The research involved having humans play three games against a computer. In the first two experiments, people were asked to click on red or blue-colored boxes with fake currency as a prize. In the third, participants were given the role of an investor and asked to make investment decisions, with the AI acted as the trustee.