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2026-01-08

About me - Samuel Shadrach

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My CV and Completed projects

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.

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

There's too much content here, where do I start reading?

If you work at an AI company building superintelligence, read this:
- US govt whistleblower database and guide
If you agree with me that there are significant risks from superintelligence in the next few years, read this:
- How to support the political movement against risks from superintelligence, Why have hope about fixing risks from superintelligence?
- See the section below on "political strategy" for more
If you don't know about or disagree with me regarding risks from superintelligence in the next few years, read this:
- Try AI models from 2019 to 2025, My AI timelines as of 2025-12
- Experts sign Dan Hendrycks' letter, Yudkowsky's interview, Yudkowsky's TIME article, Game: Universal Paperclips
If you don't know about risks from superintelligence, and found all the resources above too technical for you:
- Search what your favourite social media influencers have said about superintelligence.
- John Sherman's youtube channel, Movie: Colossus
- My 2 hour course: Intro to AI

Current project

Make a curated list of 100-500 personal blogs that talk about risks from superintelligence. Want to create a feed that is better than twitter, lesswrong or youtube. More details

Side projects (maybe)

Political strategy around risks from superintelligence: Support the political movement against risks from ASI, Why have hope about fixing risks from superintelligence?, Prolific.com survey on AI pause, Four competing hypotheses of persuasion, Who should you trust when fixing risks from ASI?, Discussion forums for AI extinction risk, Letter to AI lab heads, Why no religion?, Duncan Sabien's MtG colour wheel applied to Politics, My views on Lesswrong, My views on EA, My views on d/acc by Vitalik, My views on crypto, I seem to be half a unilateralist
- See also: cypherpunks mailing list, predecessor to blockchain/Tor/Signal. extropians mailing list, predecessor to the AI companies, and EA/lesswrong
Miscellaneous research on a world with zero privacy: Cyberattack Big Tech?, Open source weaponry, Long-term view on information, tech and society

Projects abandoned for now

Creating educational content on youtube on risks from superintelligence. Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach, Youtube retrospective
Miscellaneous research on human genetic engineering: Politics of HGE.
Building open source search engines: Books Search for Researchers, Open source search
Miscellaneous research on other topics, like geopolitics and tech and stuff: Unimportant, SecureDrop review, My timelines for various deep tech
For a more general audience: Courses for you, Advice for you

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