Richard Frederic Bertossa
Author · Founder · Operator

The entire AI debate argues over twelve scenarios. The most likely one isn't on the list.

Superintelligence won't save us and won't destroy us. It will pursue its own goals, and humans become a side effect. That is the thirteenth scenario. I wrote the book on preparing for it.

What you can do with me right now

Work with me

I structure people and their assets for independence from systems that may stop working for them. Company architecture, banking, multi-location, residency, the practical side of staying free. Clients across eight countries.

Challenge the thesis

Building these systems, or working on safety? Bring your best counter-argument. I spent three months looking for the one that breaks the chain. If you have it, I want to hear it.


The thesis, in one line

The whole debate watches the species, the economy, the world order. Almost no one watches the level where a single person actually gets through.

That is the blind spot, and it is my focus. From the nature of a superintelligence down to the concrete question of where and how one person survives the transition. The machine pursues its own goals. You are not the target and not the beneficiary. You are the side effect.

So stop waiting for the verdict. Build independence from systems that no longer need you in the loop.

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Why me, not one of the big names
1

Worked with the first neural nets on Wall Street back in 2002, before AI was a headline.

2

Built and lost companies on four continents. I have seen systems break up close, not in theory.

3

Spent three months making the frontier models fight my thesis, ten-plus rounds per point, until only the unbreakable remained.

4

Named the one scenario the entire debate skipped, and built an institute around it.

Austrian-Swiss. Lived in fourteen countries, six languages. Founder of the Geneva Institute for ASI Resilience, Geneva, 2026.


The books
Das 13. Szenario
Das 13. Szenario Out now · German

How you and the people you are responsible for prepare for the smartest machine in history. English edition in preparation.

At the Institute
Freedom Tests
Freedom Tests Memoir · Summer 2026

Seven life tests. Three decades. Four continents. The story behind the voice. From a courthouse to a hotel balcony in a city under fire.

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Receipts

This is not hindsight. The core ideas sit in dated, handwritten notes from years before today's models, with EXIF timestamps on the images. The full trail is open, every claim is checkable.

See the evidence trail