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Future Of Life Institute
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit organization that works to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks facing humanity, particularly existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. Its founders include MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and its advisors include entrepreneur Elon Musk. Mission FLI's mission is reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. FLI is particularly focused on the potential risks to humanity from the development of human-level or superintelligent artificial general intelligence (AGI), but also works on risks from biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy withi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaan Tallinn
Jaan Tallinn (born 14 February 1972) is an Estonian billionaire computer programmer and investor known for his participation in the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/ Kazaa. Jaan Tallinn is a leading figure in the field of existential risk, having co-founded both the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), and the Future of Life Institute. Life Jaan Tallinn graduated from the University of Tartu in 1996 with a BSc in theoretical physics with a thesis that considered travelling interstellar distances using warps in space-time. Tallinn founded Bluemoon in Estonia alongside schoolmates Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu. Bluemoon's ''Kosmonaut'' became, in 1989 (''SkyRoads'' is the 1993 remake), the first Estonian game to be sold abroad, and earned the company US$5,000. By 1999, Bluemoon faced bankruptcy; its founders decided to acquire remote jobs for the Swedish Tele2 at a salary of US$330 each per day. The Tele2 project, "Everyday.com", was a comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
