Compensating for the loss of human distinctiveness: The use of social creativity under Human–Machine comparisons

Human-machine intellectual comparisons increasingly threaten the distinctiveness of humans. Drawing on social identity theory, we assume that people will compensate for the loss of human distinctiveness in a given area by valuing “alternative” human attributes (i.e., social creativity strategy). A preliminary study found that the defeat of a human go champion by an artificial intelligence threatened the rationality and refinement of humanity...