Empowerment Through Engagement and Optimism

Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist, and author of Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins and Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped.

• The part chess played in promoting Soviet Russian ideology during the Cold War.
• What it takes to become a chess champion now compared to 50 years ago and why Garry considers the game “one of the most aggressive forces of psychological warfare.”
• What can and can’t be applied from chess to politics and decision making.
• What Garry knows from experience about authoritarian governments and why we need to be vigilant against them now more than ever.
• Is our civilization poised for progress or ruin now that supercomputers can beat superhumans at tournament-level chess?
• And so much more…

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