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Jaan Tallinn

JT

Member of Board of Directors at Future of Life Institute

🇪🇪 Estonia

Tallinn was a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa, then used his resources and technical background to support work on risks that could threaten humanity. He co-founded the Future of Life Institute and Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and became an early backer of DeepMind.

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Member of Board of Directors
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Last editorial review: August 7, 2026