Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Tallinn is a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist whose funding shaped the development of contemporary AI research institutions like DeepMind. The readings position him as an exemplar of how TESCREAL ideologies—a bundle of techno-utopian frameworks linking transhumanism, rationalism, and effective altruism—have concentrated among billionaire technologists with outsized influence over AI governance and research directions. His appearance in the course material illustrates how financial power and ideological commitments become entangled in determining which AI futures get built.

Background

Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian computer programmer and investor known for his participation in the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/Kazaa.

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Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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Influence and variants. The TESCREAL bundle of ideologies has become enormously influential, especially within certain powerful corners of the tech industry. Current and former billionaires who subscribe to, or are associated with, one or m…The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | | our current understanding and imagination” (Goertzel, 2010). | | | Rationalism | An ideology that…In 2010, Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, and Shane Legg founded DeepMind, also with funding from TESCREAList billionaires Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jaan Tallinn, among others (Shead, 2017) (see Table 1). DeepMind’s mission is “solving i…

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