Council Post: AI Versus Humans: Who'd Lose?

Spoiler alert, the answer is both. Human-versus-computer chess matches, particularly Kasparov versus Deep Blue, contributed to mainstreaming the whole man-versus-machine discourse. Those games, in which some of the best humans to have ever played chess lost to computers, helped entrench a narrative of contest/conquest that continues to shape how we view our relationship with computers. Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics laid the groundwork for this man-versus-machine narrative. Even still, it framed the relationship in a slave-master context where one only existed to be subjugated by the other.