TL;DR: I’m a tech entrepreneur navigating between the Bay Area and Europe. I work on efforts to maximize the benefits of AI while minimizing its risks. I want to connect with others who are trying to understand where AI is going and what we should build next.
(I write a column on AI for HS, Finland’s paper of record. You can find my views on how AI affects our future in Nordic podcast and tv conversations such as Puheenaihe, Ilmiö, Aikalisä and Kulttuuricocktail.
Suomen Kuvalehti, Helsingin Sanomat (HS) and Talouselämä have covered my takes on AI and my investor role at Agion, a company building AI governance infrastructure.)
Let me share a story. It starts in 2010, when a friend from an AI startup introduced me to the concept of the singularity.
A couple of years later, in 2013, I wrote about scenarios in which computers and robots replace us in the labour market. In 2014, I wrote about AI alignment, recursive self-improvement and what if AI becomes uncontrollably smart (in Kuukausiliite, a respected long-form journalism outlet in Finland).
OpenAI did not yet exist. Sam Altman was a person I thought highly of because of his startup blog.
Then Wolt happened. My friends and I saw the physical world turn digital and founded a local commerce platform. It took off and became my next step in life.
In 2016, I was in charge of launching Wolt in Stockholm. In a tech seminar I publicly asked Eric Schmidt, then-executive chairman of Alphabet, what he thought of the premise of AI becoming a threat to humanity, the idea that Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking were popularising. Schmidt brushed me off as he felt Musk and Hawking did not know what they were talking about. He argued we could always switch off the computers.
I found the take surprising but also had my hands full. Wolt had just raised €10M, which soon became hundreds of millions. I was too busy scaling our business to follow the breakthroughs in 2017–2021.
Then, in 2022, two things happened.
First, Wolt was acquired by DoorDash for $8B — one of the largest acquisitions ever of a privately held, venture-backed technology startup.
A few months after that, OpenAI started the mainstream LLM revolution.
Everything we had learned in 100,000 years – on math and medicine, memes and political science – could now be put into use by anyone. This was thanks to a bunch of neural network layers and smart matrix calculations.
How far could we get if we kept feeding the machine and gave it access to tools?
Cut to spring 2026.
We’re not only dealing with world models, BCI, OpenClaw, embodied AI and chat buddies that possess the collective knowledge of the planet. We’re literally discussing if the viable long-term path forward for humans is to deeply integrate with AI.
On the verge of recursive self-improvement finally taking off, we seem to be approaching an even more profound intelligence explosion. (Eric Schmidt also takes this seriously and has become an excellent communicator on the topic.)
As if that weren’t enough, we’re also preparing for a new wave of AI-enabled biosecurity and cybersecurity threats.
I have been diving into AI for quite some time now.
Nothing energizes me more than this. That’s why I’ve decided to dedicate the next phase of my life to helping us navigate what’s ahead.
With ten years building a tech company, years of interest in AI safety, a technical degree, and a career in journalism, I want to help us take the right turns with AI. I don’t take fees for my advisory work, which lets me say what I think and do what is right.
As a first step in 2025, I met with 70+ decision-makers, AI researchers and builders from different fields in the Nordics.
In 2026, I’ve been coaching Silicon Valley startups and splitting my time between Helsinki and the Bay Area.
At minimum, I aim to become a useful bridge between SF and Europe. However, I’m hoping that spending time with people at the frontier helps me figure out my own next chapter. I hope that chapter contributes, in some concrete way, to a good future for humanity.
We’re at the start of something that will change everything. I expect to keep refining my focus as this unfolds.