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2026-02-26

About me - Samuel Shadrach

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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.

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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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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 seriously looking into plans that break US law, so there could be risks to you if you closely associate with me.
- Risk disclaimer for having discussions with me on cyberattacking US govt
- Should you trust me?

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

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 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 might do that and poach your allies.
- 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
  - I want data on theoretical limits of distributed training runs
  - Why I am pessimistic on ASI alignment being solved by 2030
- My work on political strategy (Work in progress)
- 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
- 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 (Work in progress)
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
- 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 and a world with zero privacy (Work in progress, contains politically sensitive info)
- 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. The most practical way I know to create a world with zero privacy for everyone, soon, is for cyberattacks to become so much easier than cyberdefence, that literally everyone on Earth give up on cyberdefence altogether. I am still figuring out moral, practical and other implications of these ideas.
- Risk disclaimer for having discussions with me on cyberattacking US govt
- Morality behind my leaks is different from wikileaks
- Redaction policies as psychological damage
- Tight opsec feels bad
- The Pentagon Pizza index is not yet dead
- Attack them move-by-move
- Why do I want to cyberattack the US govt?
- Morality of cyberhacking versus espionage
- List of cyberhackers leaking information for political reasons
- Revolutionary courts for the privatisation of cyberwar
- Cyberattack Big Tech?
- Maybe all weapons are safe to open-source
- Long-term view on information, tech and society
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.

Current work

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Unimportant / abandoned work

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.
- Hard numbers for the search pipeline
- Ads versus recommendations
- Disagreements app retrospective
- App: Disagreements
- App: Books Search for Researchers
- Open source search
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.
Exhaustive list of all my posts

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