# Jaan Tallinn
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jaan tallinn (born 14 February 1972) is an Estonian computer programmer and investor known for his participation in the development of Skype in 2002 and FastTrack/Kazaa, a file-sharing application, in 2000.jaan tallinn is partner and co-founder of the development company Bluemoon which created the game SkyRoads.
== Life ==
jaan tallinn graduated from the University of Tartu in 1996 with a BSc in Theoretical Physics with a thesis that considered travelling interstellar distances using warps in space-time.
Tallinn founded Bluemoon in Estonia alongside schoolmates Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu.
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Fireside Chat | Jaan Tallinn
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, Future of Life Institute, and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organisations. Jaan is on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomi…
EAG 2018 SF: Jaan Tallinn fireside chat
Jaan Tallinn has been an effective altruist for many years, and has used his reputation and personal funds to support the study of existential risk. In this fireside chat from Effective Altruism Global 2018: San Francisco, moderated by Nathan Labenz, he discusses how his views on AI have become mor…
AI Billionaire on Existential Risk: Jaan Tallinn – #112
Jaan Tallinn is a tech billionaire and founding engineer of Skype who leverages his wealth to mitigate existential risks from artificial general intelligence (AGI). He co-founded the Future of Life Institute and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, while making early foundational investmen…
Over 300 Plants Found Controlling Media: Our Old Friend Group Went Rouge & Wants to Destroy AI
Malcolm and Simone break down new reporting from effort.news exposing how effective altruism organizations spent tens of millions funding anti-AI narratives across journalism, YouTube explainer channels, and religious groups. They discuss the circular donor ecosystem, undisclosed grants, and the im…
Episode 7: The AI Doomer Cult with Brian Chau
Brian Chau: The AI doomers always believed superintelligent AI would become a malevolent god and wipe us out. People used to think he was exaggerating. Now they say it in public.
This week Jacob Coxon’s Anthropic resignation thread went mega-viral, and Bernie Sanders is staging AI’s “extraordinary…
Could AI Kills Us? Plus Divorce Tok, Skinny BBL Trend, New Health Studies & More - 1333
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit on September 9 and warned that AI could kill us all within the decade, a claim that traces right back to Anthropic's own investor, Jaan Tallinn. Chalene Johnson lines his tweet up against Geoffrey Hinton, Jan Leike, and Dario Amodei's own CBS admission that the…
2026 September 27 Commuter Top AI Startup Headlines Podcast l Numeral Closes Series C With One Hundred Million Dollars… ~ PicoJool Secures Twenty-Seven Point Five Million Dollars… ~ Sarvam AI Launches Saaras V4, Covering All Indian Languages…
Today’s episode covers the following Top AI Startup Headlines: ~ Numeral Closes Series C With One Hundred Million Dollars to Expand AI-Driven Global Tax Compliance Solutions ~ PicoJool Secures Twenty-Seven Point Five Million Dollars for AI-Enhanced Laser Data Center Interconnects ~ Sarvam AI Launch…
Jaan Tallinn would like us to survive
Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa, and a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute. For more than fifteen years, he has been among the most consistent voices arguing that advanced AI poses an extinction-level risk to human…
'Daily Show' Crowd Stunned as Jon Stewart Falls for AI Doomer Propaganda
"Actual Friends" podcast hosts Jillian Michaels and Sage Steele talk about "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart trying to make his audience scared of Meta's Muse AI; how the fears of an AI apocalypse are being used to push for AI regulation supported by shadowy figures like Dustin Moskovitz and Jaan Tall…
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