Humanity and the machine: AI’s opening gambit. Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov celebrates the assistance of computers in our lives. From the article:

Future generations would look back and be amazed that 21st Century life was so people-centric, he said, especially in fields, such as car driving, where human fallibility put more lives at risk than was necessary.

When humans work with smart machines there were huge opportunities for creativity and change for the better, he said.

“We all have these fears that machines will replace us and we’ll be extinguished but I believe there is plenty of room for creativity. And lots of it.”

“It’s up to us humans to do what only humans can do and that’s dream and dream big so we can get the most out of these amazing new tools,” he concluded.