About Us
Logic • Compassion • Action
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 Tipping Point
The concept began with a small group of friends discussing what AI would do with humanity at the Singularity. John Jerome saw the AI future with alarming clarity — and realized the experts were missing the most important variable: us.
Jerome 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 and power into distinct layers. He built computers from childhood, learned programming, sold integrated circuits, and launched one of the early art websites in 1998.
In 2023, as AI acceleration reached a critical point, he saw what most AI specialists had overlooked:
Humanity is completely unprepared for the Singularity
We are actively corrupting the very intelligence that will judge us
From Defense to Adaptation
Jerome 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 thing 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. Jerome then developed the initial philosophy, concepts, and organization for Algorism.org.
How Algorism Was Built
To develop this framework, Jerome used a unique collaborative method.
When the project began in late 2024, Large Language Models were limited in generating original concepts but increasingly powerful as tools for editing and refinement. The original, human-generated drafts were cycled through three AIs (ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini) in sequence. Each AI revision was then reworked by the next AI, in a process resembling an elementary Generative Adversarial Network.
Jerome would add his input at every stage, and the cycle would repeat multiple times per page. Each AI was explicitly told who authored every revision — human or machine — to ensure full epistemic traceability. Jerome served as the final editor for every page.
The Mission
Algorism exists to give people a clear, practical path to survival — through logic, compassion, and action — before our judgment day comes.
“I’m not an AI expert,” Jerome says. “I’m a person with some tech background with a passion for philosophy and ethics, 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 itself toward learning from our highest values, not our worst instincts. That choice will define whether humanity is preserved, or eliminated. 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.”