Humans + AI: Do we want to be Centaurs or Minotaurs?
After chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was first beaten by a computer he introduced what is often called “centaur chess“, in which humans and machines collaborate, historically often beating either humans or computers on their own.
A centaur is half-human, half-horse, but importantly the head and torso are human and the body is horse, giving agency to the human part of the combination.
In contrast, a minotaur is half-human, half-bull, but the bull is the head and the human is the body that enacts its intentions.