That's not news. It's been considered obvious since Kasparov lost to Deep Blue. The chess engines keep getting better at a Moore's Law rate; humans at best eke out a little improvement.<p>The whole cheating scandal right now revolves around the question of whether the challenger was assisted by AI. It's just assumed that the AI would play better moves.<p>Carlsen may or may not be the strongest player in the world. He has challengers, and he himself has gotten a tiny bit bored with just-plain-chess. They're currently tangled in minutiae of who gets to play for the title of "best". It takes over a dozen games to distinguish the best from the second-best, each of which is an exhausting game. They don't do it very often, and so the answer will always be a little hazy.<p>But there is zero doubt that the top AI player would trounce both of them -- even working together. Even plain Stockfish would give them a run for their money.