Jaan Tallinn

Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian computer programmer, investor, and philanthropist best known as a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and serves on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He was an early investor in and former board member of DeepMind, and led the Series A funding round for Anthropic. He is widely recognized as a prominent advocate for AI safety and the study of existential risk, having donated over a million dollars to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-founded multiple organizations dedicated to mitigating catastrophic threats to humanity.