What Happens When Algorithms Compete Against Each Other

"Netflix and Amazon compete to provide the customers with best recommendations. But algorithm feedback dynamics could lead to real problems." Algorithms competing to recommend a better movie is not a problem, but when they are tasked with hiring or granting loans, it can become a huge problem. Researchers at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence department published a work enquiring how algorithms that compete for clicks and the associated user data become more specialised for subpopulations that gravitate to their sites. In a new paper, titled "Competing AI", the researchers talk about how this phenomenon can have serious implications for both companies and consumers.