Hassabis and the wealthy Estonian spoke again, and Tallinn eventually became one of DeepMind’s first investors alongside Peter Thiel. His goal wasn’t just to make money but to keep an eye on Hassabis’s progress and make sure he didn’t inadvertently create a horrifying, rogue AI. Tallinn saw himself as an evangelist for Yudkowsky’s ideas. He wanted to use his credibility as a deep-pocketed investor to help expose his warnings to the world’s most promising AI builders.
