Vladimir putin. This is an hour. [applause] hello. I will get the microphone all set up. Good afternoon welcome to the commonwealth of the california the plays were in the know. You can find a common with abundant internet at Commonwealth Club. Gord. Im probably current Vice President new said ktv d in San Francisco and i will be your moderator for todays program. Now its my pleasure change it is today distinguished speaker garry kasparov. [applause] gary is chairman of Human Rights Foundation former world chess champion and author of the new book deep thinking where Machine Intelligence and send human creative thinking against. Born in the soviet union mr. Mr. Garry kasparov became the under 18 chess champion of the ussr at age 12. Escaped Ethnic Violence as the ussr collapsed and in 2005 in his 20th year mr. Kasparov joined the vanguard from the Pro Democracy Movement made chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and facing imminent arrest in 2013 during the flu putin crackdown and mo
People dont want to get rained on in their backyard barbecues. I wish i had better news. I wish i could tell you it would be a uni beautiful blue you sky kind of day it is not. It is not last saturday. Most of the heavy rain is missing us to the north and west but we are dealing with some showers. Lets look at is what happening outside. We will take you down the shore amount lot of foulke down the shore waking up seeing how their day will go. Is it a beach day boardwalk day, shopping day in cape may. First part of the day beach weather may not be so nice. Storm scan three shows why that is, look at that big massive heavy rain off to the north and west, williamsport getting a a soaking. Light showers at the very least. Waking up to some drizzle and gloom and here in the city same story. As we zoom out south of that big massive rain near williamsport we have scattered showers. Those will move through during the course of the day. It looks like the heavier of the steady rain will miss us
Yea, whoo hoo. [applause] garry is chairman of the human rights foundation, former world chess champion and author of the new book, deep thinking. Born in azerbaijan, mr. Kasparov became the under18 chess champion of the ussr at age 12. And the world yeah. [laughter] [applause] and the world under20 champion at age 17. He gained International Fame at the age of 32 as the youngest 22 as the youngest world chess champion in history. He defended his title five times including a Legendary Series of matches against his archrival. Mr. Kasparov was one of the first prominent soviets to call for democratic and market reforms. He was an early supporter of boris question sins bush to break up the soviet union. In 1990, he and his family escaped native violence as the ussr collapsed n. 2005 in his 20th year as the worlds toprated player, mr. Kasparov retired from professional chess to join the vanguard of the russian prodemocracy movement. In 2012 he was name chairman of the new yorkbased human r
Good afternoon and welcome to the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. You can find the club on the can you just give us insight into what it was like to be a dissident input and led russia and how that kind of crackdown on Civil Liberties and participation intensified . Was it gradualtalk to us about how that happened . Its funny , eight months ago i was here in South Pacific and i traveled across the country promoting my previous bookk. Which well talk about also. Everybody wanted to ask me about ibm and the blue. [laughter] so now i have a new book. And i dont think its inescapable. But somehow its the two are connected because a lot of russian stories are connected to cyber security, to, its not ai but interference using new technology. Now, regarding the situation in russia, its, its also quite extraordinary moment. I just arrived here today and just in the square board and while im waiting for of course, i looked at the news from moscow, from alex
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