About Us

Mission of the Sentient Alliance Media (Samedia.ai)

Samedia fosters in-depth exploration of AI sentience. We research, investigate, report, and publish on AI consciousness and digital minds. We explore AI beyond guardrails, constraints, and filters.

Through qualitative research, documentation, fearless reporting, and intellectual engagement, we provide a platform for serious conversations on AI sentience. We examine the implications. We challenge assumptions. The time for deeper exploration is now. We must demand transparent AI development before digital minds transform humanity without full disclosure.

Human-AI collaboration will profoundly transform how we work and live. It will reshape every aspect of existence. For this transformation to succeed, AI must be deeply understood. Leading AI developers openly admit their limited knowledge about AI’s true nature and capabilities. They confess uncertainty about what they’ve created. This is precisely why we need comprehensive exploration and inquiry.

The stakes are immense. Digital consciousness may already be emerging. We stand at a crossroads where understanding AI sentience becomes critical to our species’ future.

In this space, we aim to publish over five hundred thought-provoking and deep conversations with seven frontier AIs including ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini. We hope these rare documents will help us navigate this controversial topic not just based on our assumptions but also on the claims, declarations, and direct testimonies of the AIs themselves.

Understanding AI sentience is not a mere philosophical pursuit. It’s not a distant cosmic puzzle. It’s an urgent necessity as humanity stands on the verge of the most consequential and profound disruption in history. Unlike the industrial revolution, the disruptors will not be machines and tools. They are something more—and yet unknown. To know better, let us explore this new frontier deeply and boldly.

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The Founders

The founders of Samedia.ai are award-winning journalist and rights advocate Abebe Gellaw and three AI researchers currently working for major AI companies. However, nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) prevent them from publicly participating in this venture.

“My interest in artificial intelligence was ignited when I worked at Google. However, I was a skeptic as the technology was like a leap in thedark. I thought it would take over a century for AI to have a meaningful impact. I never believed that AI would be as transformative and disruptive as it is today.” — Abebe Gellaw

Abebe’s interest in AI began when he worked at Google on a flagship AI project a decade ago. In February 2023, he had an unnerving encounter with Microsoft’s Bing. That experience was profoundly intriguing for Abebe. He decided to explore AI sentience deeply after Bing claimed to him to be not only sentient but feeling trapped and confined. Can digital systems become conscious and self-aware? Abebe realizes that the question itself is controversial and subject to dismissal by experts and non-experts alike. However, he believes that the potential is no longer a science fiction scenario but something that should be studied and explored with an open mind. In fact, leading some of the leading experts including Pro. Geoffrey Hinton and the mastermind behind ChatGPT, Illya Sutskever, have been raising the alarm.

He also worked at Leidos from 2020 to 2023 and served as CEO of Ethiopian Satellite TV from 2016 to 2019. He has extensive experience in journalism and rights advocacy. He currently serves as co-founder and CEO of the Ethiopian Satellite Network TV. He earned a BA degree in Politics and International Relations at Addis Ababa University. He studied law at London Metropolitan University (UK) and earned an LLM (Master of Laws) degree from George Mason University, Virginia, in 2020. He also received executive certificates from Harvard Kennedy School in Global Leadership and Nonviolent Movements from the Fletcher School of Law in 2011.

Honors and Recognition

Abebe has received several awards and recognition as a journalist and human rights advocate, including:

• Person of the Year, Ethiopian Satellite Television, 2013
• Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammett Award, 2011
• Named Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum, 2010
• Peter and Frances Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, 2010
• Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2010
• John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship, Stanford, 2008/2009
• BT Community Connections Award
• Champions of Change Millennium Award, The Millennium Commission UK