Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for your job, but it will be your new coworker. Here’s how to get along.

In this edited interview with HBR senior editor Alison Beard, the chess player and Soviet exile discusses strategy, power, and the importance of playing...

Like a lot of people, I heard back in 1997 that the IBM chess computer Deep Blue had beaten world champion Garry Kasparov. I remember thinking vaguely that this represented a turning point of some kind, and then pretty quickly put it out of my mind. Kasparov himself reminded me of the match in an […]

It's hard to find a better exemplar for competition than chess. Even people who have scant knowledge of the game instinctively recognize that chess is...

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As publicity stunts go, having IBM’s Watson beat the cognitive stuffing out of all-time Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings is the niftiest bit of artificial intelligence show biz since Deep Blue globally humiliated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. IBM’s marketers apparently love promoting machines that make Mensa members look like morons. Watson may indeed prove a better […]