2026-08-04
About me - Samuel Shadrach
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.
Video: I am looking for a cofounder to leak information about the US govt and US AI companies, obtained via cyberattacks, OSINT or other methods
See also: text post on same topic
Connect with me
My CV
Important work, actively working on this
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My views on cyberattacks, whistleblowers, leaking information, and a world with zero privacy (Work in progress, contains politically sensitive info)
Important work, but not actively working on this
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Recommended resources for everyone
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If you work at an AI company building superintelligence
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If you agree with me that there are significant risks from superintelligence in the next few years
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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.
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If you are organising protests around ASI risk
- Summary: Organise protests at Taipei City, Fort Meade, LA youtuber conferences, the Capitol, NeurIPS/ICML, QS-ranked colleges, and AI company offices.
- Protests I organised
- Writings for you
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If you are attempting to persuade the public about ASI risk
- Summary:
- Study mass movements, political ideologies, propaganda, psychology, therapy, religion, pickup artistry, sales, art/music/dance to figure out how to break the core of people's psychology.
- Most effective method is probably to target audiences that are suffering due to fear of death or job loss or relationship loss, and deliver your ideology as a potential solution to their problems. For instance, you can read about how religion helps people cope with death, or about how social left versus right divide polarises the sexual marketplace, or how the october revolution in Serbia benefitted from this divide, or how labour unions organise against job loss.
- Weaker persuasion methods include becoming extremely confident and high status in order to influence groupthink, and using rituals/music/marches/brand advertising/etc.
- Consider persuading people in Taiwan.
- Be either extremely honest or extremely good at deception. Do things that ensure you retain high self-esteem.
- Lastly, get good at youtube scriptwriting to deliver your ideology effectively, and consider inviting people from GMU. Otherwise make art.
- Most important
- More writing
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If you are a technical alignment/safety researcher
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If you are considering violent solutions to ASI risk (Contains politically sensitive info)
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If you are want to moderate a forum
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More misc writing on political strategy of the AI pause movement
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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. 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
- My writing
- Other people's work
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My views on other people's work
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If you don't know about risks from superintelligence. For non-technical audience
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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.
- Disclaimer - I abandoned this topic midway, but encourage others to look into it.
- Politics of human genetic engineering
- Religious aspects of human genetic engineering
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Video archive
- Summary: I used to run a youtube channel. Most of these videos are from there. Some are new.
- Podcast
- Protest
- I am looking for a cofounder
- Everything else
Unimportant work, not actively working on this
- Built an AI realtime voice translation app using AI
- 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
- Writings
- 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.
- Epistemology and decision-making
- Industries besides pure software
- Software and AI (not ASI)
- Pain points
- AI (not ASI)
- Open source
- Everything else
- Finance
- Generic advice
- Geopolitics and politics (not directly related to ASI)
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