What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
The EconomistListen to this story. How AI oversight affects human decision-making is an important question in a world where algorithms play an ever-larger role in everyday life. Car drivers, financial traders and air-traffic controllers already routinely see their decisions overruled by AI systems put in place to rapidly correct poor judgment. But, says Mr Almog, “tennis is one of the most visible settings where final decision rights are granted to AI.” That is why, together with colleagues in America and Australia, he has looked at whether tennis umpires and line judges correctly called balls in or out during nearly 100,000 points played in some 700 matches across the world, both before and after the introduction of the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system in 2006. But when the researchers looked at serves in particular, and especially in cases where the served ball landed within 20mm either side of a line, they were surprised to see the error rate soar.
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