The popular video game Minecraft is being used as a starting point in a project by ASU students aimed at making artificial intelligence, or AI, more socially intelligent. Nancy Cooke, a professor of human systems engineering in the Polytechnic School, part of the Fulton Schools, says adding human’s social intelligence capability to Minecraft’s ability to enable players to build their own virtual worlds could unlock paths to jumpstarting the social evolution of AI technology.  Cooke and Fulton Schools humans systems engineering doctoral student Myke Cohen say that approach shows promise for enabling AI and humans to become effective team players — a combination that Cooke thinks might evolve into enabling superhuman capabilities.