As in an AI extension of yourself, such that each person is essentially symbiotic with AI as opposed to the AI being a large central intelligence that's kind of an other. If you think about how you use, say, applications on the internet, you've got your email and you've got the social media and with apps on your phone — they effectively make you superhuman and you don't think of them as being other, you think of them as being an extension of yourself. So to the degree that we can guide AI in that direction, we want to do that.
"Douglas Engelbart's Augmented Human Intellect Research Center at Stanford Research Institute was dedicated to the concept that powerful computing machines would be able to substantially increase the power of the human mind.
In contrast, John McCarthy's Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory began with the goal of creating a simulated human intelligence. One group worked to augment the human mind; the other to replace it."
Palantir uses computers and analysts because the combination was so effective at weeding out fraud at Paypal.
Computers, in concert with people, are the best chess players.