This Reclusive Billionaire Gave SBF $100M

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of Skype and one of the most prominent voices in AI safety. After co-founding Skype he began to delve into the world of AI safety and strongly holds the position that humans cannot motivate AI and that action must be taken. Jaan initiated the 6-month pause on AI that was co-signed by Elon Musk. Nonetheless he's invested in some of the most influential AI companies like DeepMind and Anthropic.

On this episode he shares why he invests in AI despite his views on safety, the insights he gained from founding Skype and his first impression meeting SBF in the Bahamas.

(0:00) Intro
(1:03) Jaan's journey with crypto
(2:58) Why Jaan gave SBF $100M
(8:17) Founding Skype
(15:20) Skype's immediate rise to popularity and mistakes along the way
(22:26) Meeting Eliezer Yudkowsky
(25:20) The Center for Existential Risk in the Future of Life Institute
(31:15) Why Jaan invests in AI anyways
(37:33) Having an entrepreneur say no to you
(42:09) The process of the DeepMind sale and the ethics board
(46:30) The risk of artificial intelligence today
(1:05:16) What was that unnerving about GPT four versus GPT three?
(1:07:34) Jaan's memo on AI safety
(1:16:33) Probability that AI will wipe out humans
(1:22:51) The biggest misconception in tech

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Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky
Produced: Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music: Griff Lawson

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.