Garry Kasparov, the chess grandmaster and political activist famous for being the first World Chess Champion to lose to a computer 20 years ago this month, isn’t worried about robots making humans obsolete just yet.
In an interview Wednesday with TechCrunch at Disrupt 2017, Kasparov said artificial intelligence — the development of computer systems able to perform tasks like or better than humans — is something workers should not be concerned over.
“The biggest challenge is not that jobs are being lost, but that they’re not being lost fast enough,” said Kasparov. “Because unless you have a cycle moving fast, you will not be able to create new, sustainable jobs, [and] you will not be able to generate economic growth that will help replace jobs being lost.”