The autonomous racing drone MonoRace flies through a gate during trials. Image: Micro Air Vehicles Lab/Delft University of Technology

Artificial intelligence is undeniably good at playing games, regardless of its larger societal and environmental impact . In 1997, IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue famously beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov , and nearly two decades later, Google’s AlphaGo managed to defeat a human champion at the much more complex game Go. Since then, another AI seems to beat humans at incredibly complex video games like StarCraft or Dota 2 every few months. Impressive as these feats are, AI has mostly outperformed humans by making us play on its home turf, as in, simulated and structured environments.…