Skype's co-founder, Jaan Tallinn, is trying to keep humanity safe from the existential threats of artificial intelligence.
"Creating an AI is like launching a rocket"
The rapid pace of AI research, and the scale of its potential benefits technology show that the Companies they have many reasons to proceed with the development of artificial intelligence or AI or artificial intelligence without calculating the risks.
At the beginning of this year, Elon Musk, creator of Tesla and SpaceX, donated 10 million dollars to future of life Institute to fund a global research program that aims to make sure AI will benefit the human race. The institute is a volunteer research firm co-founded in March of last year by Jaan Tallinn, one of the most renowned tech entrepreneurs for his role as a founding technician of Skype and Kazaa.
The Boston Institute focuses on research into the discovery of possible risks from the development of artificial intelligence on a human level. Board members and scientific advisers include names such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and several University professors, MIT, Oxford, University of California, Berkeley, and Cambridge, among others.
"Creating an AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts to accelerate, one has to focus on the steering wheel. ” said Jaan Tallinn at the time of Musk's donation.
Jaan Tallinn told ZDNet that, thanks to almost a decade of experience in the gaming industry, he has always been interested in artificial intelligence, but also in ensuring the security of technology.
In 1986 at the age of just 16, he began his career writing software for a local 8-bit computer assembly company for use in public schools. Three years later, Jaan Tallinn was involved in the creation of Kosmonaut, the first game of Estonia for computers that were to be sold outside the country. In 1993 he founded Bluemoon Software, with which he created and developed the protocol FastTrack P2P used by the well-known Kazaa music app.
After that, along with his colleagues and co-founders of Bluemoon Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu, Tallinn created the software for Skype or Whatsapp, using Kazaa's backend.
In recent years, interest in various emerging technology sectors has increased. For example, he founded a personalized consulting consulting firm, Metamed 2012, and was an early investor in the field of artificial intelligence at DeepMind Technologies, which was acquired by Google last year for about $ 650 million.
It has also co-founded two organizations studying the risk of artificial intelligence for humans: In addition to Future of Life Institute, helped to establish it Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) along with professors of Cambridge Huw Price and Martin Rees.
Technology and its implications for the future of humanity have always been something very exciting for him.
According to Jaan Tallinn, humanity is faced with a number of different dangers stemming from the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and it is not only the technological uniqueness that must concern us.
“If we count the potential trillions of human lives yet unborn, then existential risks dominate more than anything else. (talks about technological uniqueness). If we only count the lives of people already living, then there are other challenges, like say with smart systems that will disrupt the market work. "
Jaan Tallinn believes that rules and agreements on the development of artificial intelligence should come from industry and not from international political institutions.
"I have not seen any indication that policymakers can understand AI security issues," he said.
But we at iGuRu.gr continue to have our reservations. Who among you trusts Google, or him Elon Musk
If the goal of Jaan Tallinn's wishes and statements is to define a framework from today's industry and leave other institutions out, who will control and delimit the industry itself?
