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2025-08-02

About me

History

• CV: DOB 2001-01-03, Male. Completed schooling in Delhi 2018, Graduated IIT Delhi biochem engg BTech+MTech 2023. Managed risk for $1B AUM at cryptocurrency startup Rari Capital. Completed ML Safety Scholars under Dan Hendrycks, UC Berkeley. Have intermediate-level skills in software, finance, biotech and probably some other topics too.
• Notable influences: cypherpunks mailing list and its successors such as Tor/Signal/blockchain, extropians mailing list and its successors such as EA/lesswrong.

Immediate goals

• Lead one-week hunger strike livestreamed in September 2025, in protest of those building superintelligent AI.
• Publish guide for whistleblowers of companies building superintelligent AI.
  • Guides: Whistleblower Database, Whistleblower Guide
• Create educational content for journalists, youtubers, general public on this cause.
  • Videos: Experts' AI timelines (1-2 min), Experts' AI extinction risk (1 min), Experts' AI extinction risk (10 min), Experts' AI timelines and extinction risk (30 min)
  • Research: Prolific.com survey on AI pause
  • Software: GPT2 (launched 2019-11-09) hosted

Other previous work by me

• Research (on AI risk): Superintelligence via series and parallel, AI timelines, AI timelines talk
• Research (on privacy/transparency): SecureDrop review, Open source weaponry, Long-term view on information, tech and society
• Research on misc topics: Unimportant
• Software: Books Search for Researchers, Open source search

Long-term plan

• I support a complete ban on building superintelligent AI for atleast next 10 years, with no exceptions for any actor. I think human extinction due to superintelligent AI wiping us out is possible by 2030. I also think a dictator could use superintelligent AI by 2030 in a way that ensures their rule is stable for centuries. See also: Dan Hendrycks' CAIS letter, Eliezer Yudkowsky's TIME article
• I can accelerate towards a world with fewer secrets. I prefer information being in public, over a handful of companies and govts having sole access. I suspect small groups of colluding actors (such as govts, companies and religious institutions) will no longer be able to suppress individual freedom, if all actors involved lacked privacy themselves. Majority vote could still suppress individual freedom in such a world, and I am fine with this. See also: Julian Assange's Conspiracy as governance

Support me

• Fund me: Request for $20,000 to support AI whistleblowers.
• Refer me: To potential funders for "outside game" strategies for fixing ASI x-risk (like mass protest, social media channels, whistleblowers) not "inside game" strategies (like alignment reseach at top AI labs, lobbying US policymakers on behalf of top AI labs). Examples: Pierre Omidyar funding The Intercept, Brian Acton funding Signal, etc
• Work with me: 1. Provide me feedback or do fact-checking for whistleblower guide. Especially interested in people with legal expertise in US or international law. Part-time or full-time possible. 2. Work with me to make video content aimed at wide aufience on AI extinction risk.

Contact me

Current location: Bangalore, India. Willing to shift if funded.

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