AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think

AI has become standard in pro Go training in South Korea, and the piece says competing professionally without it is now essentially impossible. It cites two figures: Shin Jin-seo matches AI moves 37.5% of the time versus a 28.5% player average, and AlphaGo Zero beat AlphaGo Lee 100-0 after three days of training. The shift to watch is training, not hype: KataGo is now a common tool, opening moves often mirror AI for the first 50 turns, and even top players still cannot fully explain its choices.

Why it matters: Strong HKR-H/K/R: the novelty is elite cognition shifting under AI, and the story brings concrete numbers plus a named tool. It is a reported commentary rather than a new model or product move, so it sits at the low end of featured.