A top expert on chess cheating explains how AI has transformed human play

Ken Regan, professor of computer science and engineering, was interviewed by The Los Angeles Times for a story about how artificial intelligence has transformed how people play chess.

He said “ordinary code running on our smartphones can destroy any human player on the planet, including [the world’s current top player] Magnus Carlsen.”

Read the story here.

Regan was also profiled by The i Paper (UK). He said he is confident his predictive model for catching chess cheaters has a key role to play in ensuring young, talented players are not unfairly tarnished by unfounded allegations of cheating. “It has been important in several cases to prevent arched eyebrows from becoming anything worse,” he says. “It also feeds into the general issue of how to support and sustain youthful talent in chess.”