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Experts on extinction risk in 60 seconds

2025-10-04

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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.

Current projects/goals

Recover physical and mental health
Think about intersection of religion and AI risk
- I will be inactive on social media (yt/twitter/insta/etc) until 2025-12.

Projects on pause

Publish guide for whistleblowers of companies building superintelligent AI.
- For whistleblowers: Whistleblower Database, Whistleblower Guide
- For funders: Funding request, theory of change, redteaming
Create educational content on this cause (for journalists, youtubers, software developers, general public).
- Software: Try AI models from 2019 to 2025
- Videos: Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach, Twitter: @samuel_sha13010, Raw videos
- Research: Prolific.com survey on AI pause, AI timelines talk
- See also (not by me): Experts sign Dan Hendrycks' letter, Eliezer Yudkowsky's interview on x-risk, Eliezer Yudkowsky's TIME article, Game: Universal Paperclips

Projects completed/abandoned

Completed 18 Days of Hunger Strike on livestream in protest of superintelligent AI.
- FAQs about this
Software: Books Search for Researchers, Open source search
Research (on privacy/transparency): SecureDrop review, Open source weaponry, Long-term view on information, tech and society
Research (on misc topics): Unimportant

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