Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil | Garry Kasparov

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Ukraine is on the front line of a war between freedom and tyranny, says chess grandmaster and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov. In this blistering call to action, he traces Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and details his own path from chess world champion to pro-democracy activist in Russia. His message is a challenge to global leaders to rise in support of Ukraine -- and to choose life and love over death and hatred. “The price of stopping a dictator always goes up with every delay and every hesitation,” he says. “Meeting evil halfway is still a victory for evil.”

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hu. Today, a powerful reminder from
0:09.6	chess grandmaster and human rights advocate Gary Kasparov. In his talk from TED 2022, Kasparov asks us to
0:17.0	stand up for freedom, life, and love over the tyranny and hatred animating the ongoing
0:22.5	invasion and occupation of Ukraine.
0:27.9	Five years ago, I was on this stage to talk about relationships between humans and machines.
0:37.0	Today I'm here to talk only about the relationships between humans.
0:42.6	I regularly say in my lectures on artificial intelligence that humans will always have a monopoly on evil.
0:52.6	It's not a threat. Just a reminder that people choose. We are not algorithms.
0:59.5	We are not bound by code or commandments or laws or treaties. We have them, but we choose.
1:09.9	So let us talk now about the choices we make, about things in black and white,
1:18.9	about Russia's war on Ukraine, and about good and evil. My life experience prepared me to identify evil at an early age.
1:32.0	Not my life as the chess player, not even as the youngest world champion in history.
1:38.9	No.
1:39.7	My relevant experience is where I was born and raised in what Ronald Reagan accurately called
1:47.9	the evil empire, the USSR.
1:53.2	As a young star in the Czech-Cray Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s, I had many privileges. My competitors did not.
2:03.4	I could travel to the West outside the arm curtain,
2:07.3	where it was obvious to be very quickly,
2:11.6	that they were the free world, and we were not,
2:14.8	despite what communist propaganda told us.
2:19.3	I eventually got into trouble for sharing this news, what late American civil rights hero and
2:28.4	Congressman John Lewis would have called good trouble.
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