Jaan Tallinn
Jaan TALLINN
Co-Founder
Future of Life Institute
Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (cser.org), the Future of Life Institute (futureoflife.org), and philanthropically supports other organisations tackling existential and catastropic risk.
Jaan is on the Board of the Center for AI Safety (safe.ai), on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org), and has previously served on the High-Level Expert Group on AI at the European Commission, as well as on the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board. He is also an active angel investor (metaplanet.com), a partner at Ambient Sound Investments (asi.ee), and a former investor director of the AI company DeepMind.