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In this exclusive interview, I spoke to Garry about democracy, dictators, the instability in our world, his hopes for the future and how artificial intelligence will allow us to embrace our humanity.
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Machines are pushing people to new frontiers, and teach us that complacency and the status-quo are not working.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
Instead of worrying about powerful artificial intelligences in the future, we should be concerned about the lack of intelligence in the Oval Office today!
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
We cannot think about technology in confrontational terms. There is no race against the machines, there is no fight, no war. We have to end this long, historical confrontational narrative.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
People like Trump rally people behind them by pointing out threats; these may be real, but most likely are imaginary or inflated. Then he says, 'only I can protect you.'
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
If you offer no vision for the future, someone else will. Our geopolitics cannot tolerate a vacuum, and if you retreat- whether physically or ideologically- someone else will come up with a plan which may not be complementary for democracy.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
History is not linear, like the chapters of a book… History moves through seasons, and so winters are inevitable.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
We cannot think about technology in confrontational terms. There is no race against the machines, there is no fight, no war. We have to end this long, historical confrontational narrative.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
Playing chess, I learned the dramatic effect combining humans and machines. Humans have intuition, can recognise patterns and positions, and machines have brute-force of calculation and memory. By bringing these capabilities together in other walks of life, we can achieve incredible results.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
If you offer no vision for the future, someone else will. Our geopolitics cannot tolerate a vacuum, and if you retreat- whether physically or ideologically- someone else will come up with a plan which may not be complementary for democracy.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
People like Trump rally people behind them by pointing out threats; these may be real, but most likely are imaginary or inflated. Then he says, 'only I can protect you.'
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
History is not linear, like the chapters of a book… History moves through seasons, and so winters are inevitable.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
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