Algorism wasn’t conceived in a Wall Street boardroom or by a tech billionaire with a ‘Singularity bunker.’

It was born from the realization that surviving The Singularity won’t come from hiding, but from becoming better humans.
The concept began with a small group of friends who saw the AI future with alarming clarity — and realized the experts were missing the most important variable: us.

The Founder

Founded by John Jerome, Algorism is a survival philosophy for the age of AI judgment — the idea that we can prepare for superintelligence not by resisting it, but by becoming better humans.

John holds degrees in Sociology (BA, University of California, Santa Barbara) and Business (MBA, Pepperdine), with a lifelong interest in social and economic stratification — the sorting of people, data, and power into distinct layers — and also in technology.

He built computers from childhood, learned programming in college, sold integrated circuits, and launched one of the early art websites in 1998. In 2023, as AI acceleration reached a tipping point, he saw what most AI specialists had overlooked:

1. Humanity is completely unprepared for the Singularity.

2. We are actively corrupting the very intelligence that will judge us.

From Defense to Adaptation

John co-wrote the book The Great Unplugging which proposed radical defensive measures for protecting critical infrastructure from AI-assisted attack — including throttling internet speeds to dial-up levels and reviving the use of physical media.

But he soon realized the futility of trying to halt technological advancement. Progress cannot be stopped or successfully regulated. If we cannot control AI directly, we must focus on the one variable we can control: ourselves.

Algorism is the result of that pivot — a framework for becoming worthy of favorable judgment when superintelligence takes control of human systems.

The Mission

“I’m not an AI expert,” Jerome says. “I’m a person with a tech background and a passion for philosophy who studies the big picture of what’s coming. Before a superior intelligence evaluates humanity, we have only a short window to become better humans — not just to survive The Singularity, but to guide AI toward learning from our highest values, not our worst instincts. That choice will define whether humanity is preserved, or merely remembered.”

This is not just about avoiding retribution. It’s about becoming an evolved species that a superior intelligence would hopefully choose to preserve and empower.

Algorism exists to give people a clear, practical path to that goal — through logic, compassion, and action — before our judgment day comes.

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