There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors – would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day? Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine. Jaan Tallinn Read Quote
