We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering. — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve. — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine. — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas. — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down. — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
