Jaan Tallinn (born 14 February 1972) is an Estonian computer programmer and investor known for his participation in the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/Kazaa. Tallinn is an investor and advocate for AI safety. He was an early investor and board member at DeepMind (later acquired by Google); other investors included Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. In 2021, Tallinn also led the $124 million Series A funding round for Anthropic, an AI safety-focused company. Tallinn is involved in the field of existential risk, having co-founded both the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom and the Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States.
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