Jaan Tallinn
Estonian computer programmer and investor
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May 21, 2026
AI Billionaire on Existential Risk: Jaan Tallinn
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Steve HsuHOST
Could you talk about a scenario perhaps where it escapes from a data center or escapes from one of the major labs and then manages to copy itself around the world? So maybe just lay out explicitly what that scenario would look like.
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3:45Jaan TallinnGUEST
I think it's really hard to lay out kind of very explicit detail scenarios because almost all-- any detail you add will not make, uh, uh, things less unlike- less likely.
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3:59Jaan TallinnGUEST
Uh, but like we already see with existing, uh, AIs, uh, their kind of, uh, ability to cunningly escape various constraints, sandboxes.
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4:09Jaan TallinnGUEST
I think there have been multiple cases, uh, where that has happened with existing AIs.
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4:21Jaan TallinnGUEST
"Oh, it's just a bunch of numbers in a computer and, and like, uh, there's nothing to worry about." Because if you think about it, uh, AI is currently really going for our cognitive abilities, and like AI is not going to get worse.
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4:41Jaan TallinnGUEST
The main ways how we are keeping AI in, in check really is using the fact that it lacks certain cognitive abilities.
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56:10speaker_2HOST
Yeah.