TL;DR: I’m a non-partisan AI communicator who helps leaders grasp new technologies and speaks publicly on how we could humanely benefit from AI.
Let me share a story. It starts in 2010, when a friend from an AI startup introduced me to the concept of singularity.
A couple of years later, in 2014, I covered the topic – what if AI becomes uncontrollably smart – in Kuukausiliite, the most respected long-form journalism outlet in Finland.
OpenAI did not yet exist. Sam Altman was a person I thought highly of, but only because of his startup blog.
Then Wolt happened. My friends and I saw the physical world turn digital and started an e-commerce delivery 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 Google, what he thought of the threat of AI taking over, the idea that Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking were popularising.
As covered by international media, Schmidt brushed me off. He said Musk and Hawking don’t know what they are talking about. He argued that the threat was “science fiction”. We could always just switch off the computers.
I found it surprising that the person running the most influential tech giant on the planet was not giving credit to machine intelligence. However, I also had my hands full. Wolt had just raised €10m, which soon became hundreds of millions. I was too busy scaling our business to learn deeply about the breakthroughs in transformers and attention mechanisms in 2017–2021.
Then, in 2022, two things happened.
First, Wolt was acquired by DoorDash for $8B in the largest acquisition deal in Finnish history.
A few months after that, OpenAI started the mainstream large language model revolution.
Everything we had learned in 100,000 years – on math and medicine, memes and political science – could now be put instantly into use. 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 other tools?
Cut to today.
Many of us now have a chat buddy that possesses the collective knowledge of the entire planet. This is redefining what it means to be human.
By adding intelligent extensions to large language models, AI agents have emerged. They now hang around the internet and our enterprise systems, doing our work for us.
What if we put thousands of these into use to do the AI research itself? Are we on the verge of an even more profound intelligence explosion? At least Eric Schmidt now takes the topic very seriously.
At the same time, there’s no fundamental reason why AI can’t support us doing new science or help us innovate our way out of some of our worst problems.
So, yes: while there might be a bit of an investor bubble, this seems to also be one of the most important moments in our history.
I have been diving into these topics for three years now as a generalist.
I’ve met with people who research or develop AI or build AI companies. I’ve spent mornings listening to expert podcasts and evenings watching YouTube tutorials. I’ve dipped my toes into video generation with Nano Banana, vibe coding with Cursor and agent swarms through Manus. I’ve invested months into articles and X threads on what’s happening with AI and studying the topic using GPT and Claude.
This has led to a sort of tipping point. I’ve realised I sincerely want to help people benefit from what’s happening.
I have a background of eight years in journalism and ten years in building a tech company. This means I can play a small role in helping us take the right turns with AI. I think there’s a genuine path for us to take AI into use so that it benefits all of us. And I can even do this for free, enabled by what I got from Wolt.
Due to all of this, I’ve started to communicate around this publicly. My goal is to be an interesting and neutral AI explainer you can trust.
As a first step in the Fall of 2025, I’ve met with dozens of decision-makers from different fields in Finland. I’ve aimed to help people make sense of how these new systems work, how we can concretely take them into use and what’s in store for the next 1–3 years.
Going forward, I’ll keep refining my focus, as is the plan.
Let’s get back or hopefully meet soon!