About me

Samuel Headshot Casual

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 goal

Enable whistleblowers of companies building superintelligent AI to leak information to the general public.
- What?
  - I am working on a guide for whistleblowers.
  - I can provide high-quality technical education for journalists or youtubers on a) how to safely accept and handle leaked documents b) AI risk as a political cause
- Work done so far
  - Whistleblower Database, Whistleblower Guide
- Similar projects by others
  - Similar projects supporting whistleblowers: Wikileaks, SecureDrop
  - Some popular people's views on AI risk: Geoffrey Hinton's views, Yoshua Bengio's views, Dan Hendrycks' letter, Eliezer Yudkowsky's views
- Support me
  - Fund me: Request for $20,000 to support AI whistleblowers
  - Work with me: Provide me feedback or do fact-checking for me. Especially interested in people with legal expertise in US or international law. Part-time or full-time possible.
- Long-term plan
  - I support a complete ban on building superintelligent AI. I think humanity might go extinct by 2030 if not for a ban. Leaked information could help with coordinating a ban.
  - I can accelerate towards a world with fewer secrets. Resulting world may be radically different than ours. I think individual freedom can be protected despite lack of privacy, if everyone trying to suppress your freedom also lacks privacy when taking such actions.
- Previous work
  - Research: SecureDrop review, Open source weaponry, Long-term view on information, tech and society, Intelligence explosion, AI forecasts
  - Software: Books Search for Researchers, Open source search

Contact me

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

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