The chess grandmaster who was beaten by a computer predicts that AI will 'destroy' most jobs

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Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who lost to IBM's Deep Blue computer in 1997, predicts that AI will 'destroy' most jobs in the US.

Kasparov gave an interview with WIRED's Will Knight last week at an AI summit in New York.

"For several decades we have been training people to act like computers, and now we are complaining that these jobs are in danger," Kasparov said. "Of course they are."

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Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov says that when he was beaten by IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer in 1997, he was "the first knowledge worker whose job was threatened by a machine."

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