2026-02-01
About me - Samuel Shadrach
I am a full-time activist who is figuring out how to prevent AI companies from creating superintelligence in the next 5-10 years, as I am worried the result could be human extinction or permanent dictatorship.
Connect with me
My CV
Important work - Start reading from here
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If you work at an AI company building superintelligence
- Summary: I recommend that you whistleblow against your company. My guide might help, depending on your situation. Unless you are seriously considering either resigning or becoming a whistleblower, I am probably not interested in any conversation with you.
- US govt whistleblower database and guide
- Letter to AI lab heads
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If you agree with me that there are significant risks from superintelligence in the next few years
- Summary: The most impactful thing you can do is to persuade the entire US public to vote against and protest against the frontier AI companies and the US govt. You can start a social media channel or run for politics. Do not work under the frontier AI companies, or the US govt, or EA / LW orgs that want to collaborate with them. Seek knowledge and power, more than you seek relationships. If you don't reward your allies with wealth or status, someone you don't like will do the same.
- My work on political strategy (WIP)
- My views on other people's work (WIP)
- Read the origins of these discussions
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If you don't know about or disagree with me regarding risks from superintelligence in the next few years
- Summary: AI is a black box. Since 2012, most progress in AI research is based on heuristics that nobody understands. Extrapolating the trendline of last 5 years into next 5 years seems like a good way of forecasting the future. Also, AI understands human language, and is hence closer to human intelligence than ape intelligence IMO.
- My work
- Other people's work
- My views on other people's work
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If you don't know about risks from superintelligence, and found all the resources above too technical for you
- Summary: I still find it difficult to convince non-technical people this problem is real and extremely urgent. Some resources are given below.
- Search what your favourite social media influencers have said about superintelligence.
- John Sherman's youtube channel
- Movie: Colossus
- My 2 hour course: Intro to AI
- Maybe spend a few months living in a country under dictatorship or at war, to get first-hand experience for what that is like.
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My views on human genetic engineering
- Summary: I think working on human genetic engineering is probably extremely harmful for the world, but I am not yet sure. If we have a US-China arms race over human genetic engineering, the winners may have genetically removed their capacity for love and relationships completely.
- Politics of HGE.
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My views on a world with zero privacy (WIP)
- Summary: I think a world with zero privacy for everyone is probably better than our world, but I am not yet sure. Our leaders will likely be more accountable to us. All their weapons and dual use capabilities will then be under public oversight. We will learn faster, because we would actually know what each other's experience is like. We will probably still have a significant amount of freedom in this world.
- Cyberattack Big Tech?
- Open source weaponry
- Long-term view on information, tech and society
Current work
Unimportant / abandoned work
- Built some AI-based apps for search and discovery
- Created educational content on youtube on risks from superintelligence
- A lot of the following posts discuss topics that are less important to me, than what happens to ASI. But if your priorities are different from mine, maybe you will like these. Mostly aimed at a technical audience.
- Industries besides pure software
- Cybersecurity and opsec
- Software and AI (not ASI)
- Finance
- Politics
- Generic advice
- Exhaustive list of all my posts
Personal
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