Author: Jaan Tallinn

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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

- Jaan Tallinn

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.

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

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.

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

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

- Jaan Tallinn

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

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

Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

- Jaan Tallinn

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