Jaan Tallinn
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Jaan Tallinn is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 09, 2022 and April 06, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Right now AI alignment has lots of cash. If there’s a really good AI alignment charity, Open Philanthropy Project and Founders Fund and Elon Musk and Jaan Tallinn will all fight each other to throw money at it”; “included Dustin Moskowitz, Sam Bankman-Fried, Jaan Tallinn”; “Various sources of encouragement, advice, and inspiration, including Oliver Habryka, Tyler Cowen, and Jaan Tallinn”. It most often appears alongside GiveWell, ACX Grants, Anthropic.
Metadata
- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: February 09, 2022
- Last seen: April 06, 2026
Appears In
- So You Want To Run A Microgrants Program
- In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism
- ACX Grants Results 2024
- Open Thread 428
Related Pages
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- GiveWell (3 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- EA (2 shared issues)
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- effective altruism (2 shared issues)
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- Manifold Markets (2 shared issues)
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- Metaculus (2 shared issues)
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- Open Philanthropy (2 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- Sam Altman (2 shared issues)
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- Survival and Flourishing Fund (2 shared issues)
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- Tyler Cowen (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Right now AI alignment has lots of cash. If there’s a really good AI alignment charity, Open Philanthropy Project and Founders Fund and Elon Musk and Jaan Tallinn will all fight each other to throw money at it. So if a seemingly really good AI alignment charity asked me for money, I would wonder - why haven’t they gotten money from a big experienced foundation?
The founders of Anthropic included several EAs (I can’t tell if CEO Dario Amodei is an EA or not). The original investors included Dustin Moskowitz, Sam Bankman-Fried, Jaan Tallinn, and various EA organizations. Its Wikipedia article says that “Journalists often connect Anthropic with the effective altruism movement”. Anthropic is controlled by a board of trustees, most of whose members are effective altruists.
Various sources of encouragement, advice, and inspiration, including Oliver Habryka, Tyler Cowen, and Jaan Tallinn.
3: ETA for next ACX Grants round is provisionally next winter, but this year I’ll be helping evaluate grants for the Survival and Flourishing Fund, an EA-aligned group associated with billionaire investor Jaan Tallinn which looks for “projects that are trying to support humanity’s long-term survival and flourishing”. In recent rounds, they’ve focused on making AI go well, including technical safety, policy, and maintaining freedom and fairness through the AI transition. They’ll probably continue this agenda for their main track, but they’re now also trying out auxiliary tracks focusing on animal welfare, climate change, and human self-enhancement. See here for more information or to apply. Deadline is April 22 for the round I’m helping with, or later this summer for the auxiliary tracks or other rounds.