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Experts on extinction risk in 60 seconds

2025-10-14

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I will be inactive on social media (yt/twitter/insta/etc) until 2025-12. Email-only to communicate.
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DOB 2001-01-03, Male. 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.

Publish guide for whistleblowers of companies building superintelligent AI.
- For whistleblowers: Whistleblower Database, Whistleblower Guide
- For funders: Funding request, theory of change, redteaming

18 Days of Hunger Strike on livestream in protest of superintelligent AI.
- Featured by: ThePrint, The Verge, Peninsula Press
- Interviews: Interview 1, Interview 2, Interview 3

Create educational content on this cause (for politicians, 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
Political strategy around AI risk
- Figure out how to persuade youtubers, journalists, politicians targeting various different demographics to talk about risks from superintelligence. Maybe I will compile some viewcount stats to prove it's in their self-interest to talk about it.
- Support the movement, Discussion forums, Letter to AI lab heads, Why no religion?, My views on Lesswrong

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