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Impact of AI on Human Expertise: Canaries in the Coalmine

2026-05-22

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<p>Artificial intelligence is increasingly able to perform cognitive tasks that were once thought to require human expertise. This raises the question: what happens to human expertise when AI systems equal or exceed expert human performance? We examine this question from the perspective of chess, a domain in which superhuman AI has existed for more than 25 years. We argue that chess provides not a single “canary i...

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Literature Corpus work: 100c1844-2785-54e6-b2d6-d6150e565be5
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/k3p8s_v1

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