Education
He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Physics with a thesis that involved traveling interstellar distances using warps in space-time.
He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Physics with a thesis that involved traveling interstellar distances using warps in space-time.
Tallinn donated $364,000 to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He strongly promotes the study of existential risk and has given numerous talks on this topic. His main worries are related to artificial intelligence, unknowns coming from technological development, and biological risk.
In his opinion humanity is not spending enough resources on long-term planning and mitigating threats that could potentially wipe us out as a species.
Tallinn is a former member of the Estonian President"s Academic Advisory Board.