This TED Talk features Grandmaster and analyst Gary Kasparov, recorded live at TED 2017.

This story begins in 1985. When on age 22, I became the world chess champion after beating Anatoly Corphe.

Early that year, I played what is called simultaneous exhibition against 32 of the world's best chess playing machines in Hamburg, Germany.

I won all the games.

And then it was not considered much of a surprise that I could beat 32 computers at the same time.

To me, that was the golden age.

Machines were weak, and my hair was strong.

Just 12 years later, I was fighting for my life

against just one computer.

In a match called by the cover of Newsweek,

the brain's last stand. No pressure.

From mythology to science fiction, human versus machine,

has been often portrayed as a matter of life and death.

John Henry, called a still driving man in a 19th century African-American folk legend,

was spitted in a race against steam-powered hammer, bashing a tunnel through mountain of rock.

John Henry's legend

is a part of a long historical narrative

pitting humanity versus technology.

And this competitive rhetoric

is standard now. We're in a race against the machines

in a fight or even in the war.

Jobs are being killed off.

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