“Let’s Live with Them” is an inspiring speech by Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion. In this lesson, Kasparov speaks about human beings, machines, artificial intelligence, and the future of work. He argues that people should not fear intelligent machines. Instead, humans should learn to work with them.
Kasparov begins by speaking about his own life as a chess player. In 1985, at the age of twenty-two, he became the World Chess Champion after defeating Anatoly Karpov. In those days, chess-playing machines were weak. Kasparov once played against thirty-two of the world’s best chess-playing machines in Hamburg, Germany, and defeated all of them. To him, that was the golden age when machines were weak and humans were clearly superior.
But technology improved very quickly. Within twelve years, Kasparov found himself fighting for his reputation against a computer. The world began to see this as a dramatic battle between man and machine. People often imagine technology as an enemy of humanity. Stories like John Henry, The Terminator, and The Matrix present machines as rivals or threats to human beings.
Kasparov then speaks about his famous matches with IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue. He won the first match in Philadelphia but lost the rematch in New York in 1997. This defeat became famous because it seemed to show that machines had finally become stronger than humans in chess. Kasparov compares himself to Mount Everest, saying that Deep Blue reached the summit by defeating him.
However, Kasparov explains that Deep Blue’s victory was not really the victory of a thinking machine. It was a victory of human creators such as Anantharaman, Campbell, Hoane, and Hsu, who built and improved Deep Blue. The computer did not have human intelligence, emotions, fear, or understanding. It could calculate millions of moves very quickly, but it did not truly think like a human being.
Kasparov says that human intelligence is different from machine calculation. Machines can calculate, follow instructions, and process information, but human beings have purpose, passion, understanding, creativity, and dreams. Therefore, the question is not whether machines are intelligent in the human sense. The real question is how humans can work with machines and use them wisely.
After losing to Deep Blue, Kasparov began to think differently. Instead of seeing computers as enemies, he wondered whether humans and machines could play together. This idea led to Advanced Chess, where a human player works with a computer. At first, Kasparov himself tried this format, but he and his opponent did not use the combination effectively.
Later, freestyle chess tournaments showed the real power of human-machine cooperation. Surprisingly, the winners were not grandmasters or supercomputers. They were amateur players using ordinary computers. Their success came from their skill in guiding the machines properly. This proved that a weak human plus a machine plus a good process can defeat even strong human players or powerful machines used badly.
Kasparov presents an important formula: human plus machine plus good process is better than human alone or machine alone. This is the central idea of the lesson. The future does not belong only to machines. It belongs to humans who know how to use machines intelligently.
He then connects this idea to the modern world. Today, machines are entering every field. They are not only replacing manual labour but also affecting jobs that require education and skill. People may worry that machines will take away jobs. Kasparov says that such fear is natural, but we should not stop progress. We cannot slow down technology. Instead, we must adapt, learn, and move forward.
Kasparov reminds us that machines remove difficulties and uncertainties from human life. When they take over routine tasks, humans are free to face greater and more meaningful challenges. We should not worry about what machines can do. We should worry about what humans still cannot do and use machines to help us achieve greater dreams.
The lesson ends with a hopeful message. Machines have calculations, but humans have understanding. Machines have instructions, but humans have purpose. Machines have objectivity, but humans have passion. Human beings are not defined by a single skill like playing chess or swinging a hammer. We are defined by our ability to dream, imagine, create, and aim higher.
Thus, “Let’s Live with Them” teaches that humans should not fight against intelligent machines. We should live with them and work with them. Technology should not be feared as an enemy; it should be used as a partner. The lesson encourages us to dream big and use intelligent machines to turn our greatest dreams into reality.
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