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2026-05-08

About me - Samuel Shadrach

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I wish to prevent AI companies from creating superintelligence in the next 5-10 years, as I expect the result of building superintelligence could be human extinction or permanent dictatorship. I work on this full-time, and currently independent.

IMPORTANT: I am looking for a cofounder to cyberattack the US govt and US AI companies

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Contact me - Email: [email protected], Signal: samueldashadrach.02, Youtube: samuel.da.shadrach, Twitter: samuel_sha13010, Lesswrong: samuelshadrach
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Donate to me (crypto, wire transfer)
Should you trust me?
- Summary: If you are working at or investing >$100M at an AI company building ASI, you are my enemy and you should not trust me. If you are some random unimportant and powerless person, you probably don't have to worry about me being violent or violating your consent or similar. I am working on plans that break US law, so there could be risks to you if you closely associate with me.
- I am looking for a cofounder to cyberattack the US govt and US AI companies
- Summary of my current views on morality of various plans to fix ASI risk
- Should you trust me?
- My personality test results

My CV

Completed 18 day Hunger Strike on livestream in protest of AI companies building superintelligence. Featured by ThePrint and others. Interviewed by Guido Reichstader and others.
Published US govt whistleblower database and guide. Written for employees of AI companies building superintelligence.
Completed ML Safety Scholars under Dan Hendrycks, UC Berkeley
Managed risk for Rari Capital, cryptocurrency startup managing $1B peak AUM
Graduated IIT Delhi Biochem engg BTech+MTech 2023. (Among top 3 engg colleges in India)
DOB 2001-01-03, Male

Important work - Start reading from here

Recommended resources for everyone
- Discussion forums for AI extinction risk
- Reading list on persuasion for anti-ASI movement
- How to support the political movement against risks from ASI (includes unconventional life plans that I support)
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
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 build friendships with people at the frontier AI companies, or the US govt, or the EA / LW orgs that want to collaborate with the frontier AI companies or US govt. Do not accept funding from these people. Seek knowledge and power. Reward your allies with wealth or with people's respect, otherwise someone you don't like might reward your allies and poach them from you.
- If you are organising protests around ASI risk
  - Completed 18 day Hunger Strike on livestream in protest of AI companies building superintelligence. Featured by ThePrint and others. Interviewed by Guido Reichstader and others.
  - I organised a protest against superintelligence at India AI Impact Summit 2026
  - I am not a member of Pause AI
- If you are attempting to persuade the public about ASI risk
- If you are a technical alignment/safety researcher
- If you are considering violent solutions to ASI risk (Contains politically sensitive info)
- My work on political strategy of the AI pause movement
  - How to support the political movement against risks from ASI (includes unconventional life plans that I support)
  - Why have hope about fixing risks from ASI?
  - Why am I not currently starting a religion around AI or similar topics?
  - Summary of my current views on morality of various plans to fix ASI risk
  - trust and allies
  - groupthink, status (Quick notes, not well-thought out posts)
  - Duncan Sabien's MtG colour wheel applied to Politics
  - How to enforce an AI ban
- Political meta
- Read the origins of these discussions
  - cypherpunks mailing list, predecessor to blockchain/Tor/Signal
  - extropians mailing list, predecessor to the AI companies, and EA/lesswrong.
  - lesswrong.com with year filter 2008
If you don't know about or disagree with me regarding risks from superintelligence in the next few years. For technical audience
- 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.
- Code
  - App: Try AI models from 2019 to 2025
- My writings
- Other people's work
My views on other people's work
- Summary: It's hard for me to summarise this section. My current plan is a mix between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Julian Assange. I also have atleast a little bit of respect for almost every person listed below, that is precisely why I took out the time to criticise them in the first place.
- I am not a member of Pause AI
- Downsides of doing ASI alignment/safety/control research
- Why I am pessimistic on ASI alignment being solved by 2030
- My personal apology to Eliezer Yudkowsky for not working on ASI risk in 2022 itself
- My views on Lesswrong
- My views on EA
- My views on e/acc by Nick Land
- Why I love Julian Assange
- I seem to be half a unilateralist
- My views on d/acc by Vitalik Buterin
- My views on crypto
- My views on Naval Ravikant on ASI risk
- My views on Peter Thiel
- My views on Buddhism
- I will only persuade or criticise the powerful
- My views on Paul Graham - stub
- My views on Visakan Veeraswamy - stub
- My views on IFS - stub
- My views on Jordan Peterson - stub
- My letter to Richard Ngo on US politics
- I respect Daniel Morena-Gama
- SecureDrop review
If you don't know about risks from superintelligence. For non-technical audience
- 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
- Acharya Prashant's video on ASI from Hindu lens
- 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.
My views on cyberattacks, whistleblowers, leaking information, and a world with zero privacy (Work in progress, contains politically sensitive info)
- Summary: I am looking for a cofounder to cyberattack the US govt and US AI companies
- I am looking for a cofounder to cyberattack the US govt and US AI companies
- Disclaimer - Many of the posts below are quick notes, and have inaccuracies. Use the "I am looking for a cofounder" post as the main post here, which I will hold to a higher quality standard.
- Code
  - Script: Portscan insecure printers
  - Script: Very simple automated redaction script
- technical research on methods for both offence and defence
  - offence
  - defence
- research on org policy, psychology, morality, politics and other meta stuff
My views on politics and geopolitics
- Summary: I can't summarise this. It is just a random assortment of posts. Many of them are quick notes, rather than well-thought out posts.
- Can drone swarms destroy nuclear facilities?
- Do all nuclear-armed nations have intelligence agencies unaccountable to their public?
- Use the political compass with three axes, not one or two
- Elite class social norms
- Fix geopolitics, not poverty
- My long-term view on US geopolitics
- Determining health of a democracy is non-trivial because propaganda cuts both ways
- Why I respect Hitler and Kaczynski
- Geopolitical alliance matrix
- Did the CIA attempt to assassinate Nehru?
- Indian atheist political leaders
- Federalist Papers simplified by AI
- Possible routes to power that society may consider dangerous
- Does Silicon Valley have higher base rate for bad childhoods?
- Ancient politics books are too zero-sum
- Some quotes from Inside the Aquarium by Viktor Suvorov
- Self blackmail test
- Attention beats capital
- Collusion and control
- I want leverage
- When to escalate aggression
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 human genetic engineering
- Religious aspects of human genetic engineering

Current work

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Unimportant / abandoned work

Built an AI realtime voice translation app using AI
- Code
  - App: I built a realtime voice translation app
- Writings
  - I will pay you if you build a translation app
  - UX possibilities for realtime translate app
Built some AI-based apps for search and discovery
- Summary: LLMs are obviously going to reshape search/discovery/recommendation algos for the internet. I built some apps for this and learned some things about it. I don't have product-market fit yet. I have made an intentional decision to not work on this further, and will not be re-evaluating my decision again.
- Code
  - App: Disagreements
  - App: Books Search for Researchers
- Writings
Created educational content on youtube on risks from superintelligence
- Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach
- Youtube retrospective
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.

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