Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian programmer and investor who was a founding engineer of the file-sharing application Kazaa and of Skype, whose peer-to-peer architecture grew out of Kazaa’s technology. In 2012, the year he spoke at BIL on P2P technologies, he co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, part of his growing focus on risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
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Talks
- P2P Technologies and Future Software Developments — BIL 2012 ▶ video