The tangled relationship between AI and human rights

It was a pleasant 21 degrees in New York when computers defeated humanity -- or so many people thought. That Sunday in May 1997, Garry Kasparov, a prodigal chess grandmaster and world champion, was beaten by Deep Blue, a rather unassuming black rectangular computer developed by IBM. In the popular imagination, it seemed like humanity had crossed a threshold -- a machine had defeated one of the most intelligent people on the planet at one of the most intellectually challenging games we know. The age of AI was upon us. While Deep Blue was certainly an impressive piece of technology, it was no more than a supercharged calculating machine.