Jaan Tallinn

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

— Jaan Tallinn

I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by…

— Jaan Tallinn

Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.

— Jaan Tallinn

Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have…

— Jaan Tallinn

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

— Jaan Tallinn

Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed,…

— Jaan Tallinn

Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the…

— Jaan Tallinn

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that…

— Jaan Tallinn

There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors -…

— Jaan Tallinn

We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their…

— Jaan Tallinn

I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and…

— Jaan Tallinn

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics,…

— Jaan Tallinn

I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of…

— Jaan Tallinn

The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

— Jaan Tallinn

I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.

— Jaan Tallinn

Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

— Jaan Tallinn

The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of…

— Jaan Tallinn

If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge…

— Jaan Tallinn

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software,…

— Jaan Tallinn

Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the…

— Jaan Tallinn

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already,…

— Jaan Tallinn