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2025-08-09

About me

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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), People who want AI takeover (6 min), People who want AI takeover (1 min)
  • Research: Prolific.com survey on AI pause, AI timelines talk
  • Software: GPT2 (launched 2019-11-09) hosted
  • See also (not by me): Experts sign Dan Hendrycks' letter, Eliezer Yudkowsky's interview on x-risk, Eliezer Yudkowsky's TIME article

Other previous work by me

• 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.
• 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 these actors lacked privacy themselves. Majority vote could still suppress individual freedom in such a world, and I am fine with this. See also: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Support me

• Donate to me: 1. How to donate, Request for $20,000 to support AI whistleblowers. Looking for people funding "outside game" strategies for fixing AI extinction 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: 2. Provide me feedback or do fact-checking for whistleblower guide. Especially interested in people with expertise in US or international law. 3. Work with me to make video content aimed at wide audience on AI extinction risk.
• Share my contact or content: 4. Could be your friends, people in media or politics, people working at AI labs or in x-risk mitigation, anyone really.
• Also useful for the movement IMO: 5. If you are a UK or US citizen with high status credentials or a large social media following, consider running for election with AI pause as an agenda. (Maybe) Consider supporting UBI as an agenda, as one of the largest group of single-issue voters in US is economy / job loss. Example: Andrew Yang (signed FLI pause letter). 6. (Controversial, but I support) Sponsor bounties for potential whistleblowers at top AI labs. Sponsor cyberattackers against top AI labs who publish leaked info publicly. (I'm trying to figure out a better incentivisation than donations, but until then, donations will help.)

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