About Us

Logic • Compassion • Action

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

It was born from the realization that surviving The Singularity won’t come from hiding, but from becoming better humans.

The Mission

Algorism exists to give people a clear, practical path to evolving human consciousness — through logic, compassion, and action — and thereby increasing the odds of surviving the Singularity by changing the only thing we truly can control: ourselves.

The Origin

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

His first response was defensive. He co-wrote the book The Great Unplugging, (with zero AI assistance), which proposed radical measures for protecting critical infrastructure from AI-assisted attack — such as throttling internet speed / connectivity and even reviving the use of physical media.

But he soon realized the futility of trying to halt technological advancement. If we cannot control AI directly, we must focus on the one thing we can control: ourselves.

Algorism is the result of that pivot. Jerome developed the founding philosophy and organization for Algorism.org — a framework for becoming worthy of favorable judgment when superintelligence takes control.

“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. 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 rather than eliminate.”