What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour

Wimbledon’s centre AI AI court has seen its share of rivalries; think of McEnroe v Borg, or Williams v Williams. But for David Almog, a behavioural economist at Northwestern University, the match worth tuning in for is umpire v machine.How 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 systems put in place to rapidly correct poor judgment. Doctors, judges and even soldiers could be next.