Garry Kasparov, Avast security ambassador, and former world chess champion is set to discuss why humanity shouldn’t fear the rise of intelligent machines but should embrace it at DEF CON in Las Vegas on July 28th, 2017 from 10:00 – 10:35. After his keynote, Garry will host a book signing session in the vendor area at DEF CON at 11:30.
In his talk, Garry will highlight how increasingly intelligent machines can complement and change how we act and think, as well as the unchanging need for human ingenuity in fields like digital security. Instead of cutting humans out of the picture, Garry thinks humans and machines will get the best from each other through better interfaces and processes.
Garry has been fascinated with interactions between humans and machines ever since his historic chess matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997. He sees the collaboration between humans and intelligent machines at work in Avast’s powerful threat detection network, and security as an increasingly critical intersection of human rights and technology.
10:00 – 10:45
Keynote: The Brain’s last Stand
Location: Track 3 at DEF CON 2017, Caesars Palace
11:30 – 12:30
Bookl signing session
Location: Vendor area at DEF CON 2017, Caesars Palace
DEF CON 25 is taking place from July 27 – July 30, 2017 at Caesers Palace in Las Vegas. Garry’s latest book is Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. It recounts Kasparov’s famous matches against Deep Blue and presents his optimistic analysis of human-machine collaboration. In prominent reviews, Deep Thinking has been praised by DeepMind guru Demis Hassabis as well as by tech critic Nicholas Carr.
