2025-11-04

Incomplete resource

This resource is incomplete because I haven't studied opsec mistakes of every single previous whistleblower in detail. You may have noticed some sections marked as "to do" in the DB.

I don't think studying those past cases changes the advice for future whistleblowers much, hence I didn't prioritise studying it. If you want me to work on it though, let me know (or even better, pay me).

Theory of change, Redteaming

I made a redteaming and theory of change document some months back, but some parts ("project 2" especially) are outdated.

Theory of change, Redteaming

Distribution

Have messaged over 1000 employees across AI labs (Deepmind, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Meta Superintelligence Labs) using cold emails and twitter cold DMs. Twitter has the most lax policy on spam. Email and linkedin DMs are more strict. Main metric tracked by spam filters is the percentage of people who already received your message before, who either marked as spam or ignored or replied. I did not track open rates.

Exact message I use

Please find attached my guide on how to safely whistleblow against Anthropic.
I assume that as we get closer to ASI, Anthropic will work directly with the US govt to protect its information.
Information in the whistleblower guide is backed by empirical evidence from the whistleblower database.
Whistleblower guide https://samuelshadrach.com/raw/text_english_html/my_research/us_govt_whistleblower_guide.html https://web.archive.org/web/20251102101210/https://samuelshadrach.com/raw/text_english_html/my_research/us_govt_whistleblower_guide.html
Whistleblower database https://samuelshadrach.com/raw/text_english_html/my_research/us_govt_whistleblower_database.html https://web.archive.org/web/20251102101540/https://samuelshadrach.com/raw/text_english_html/my_research/us_govt_whistleblower_database.html
Here is my secure PGP-encrypted email if you would like to discuss further. https://samuelshadrach.com/raw/text_english_html/connect_with_me/contact_me_secure.html
Please check Wayback machine or Commoncrawl for archives in case these links ever stop working.

Samuel Shadrach

Help requested

(There are legal, financial, reputational risks associated with helping me on this in any way, and I won't be discussing those risks on a public forum.)

Guide lacks legal advice because I lack legal background. If you can add legal advice to this guide, that

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US govt whistleblower DB and guide