Sam Rodriques - Bryant McGill

# Sam Rodriques **Entity class:** Researcher **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Definition **Sam Rodriques** is a researcher in high-throughput biological measurement, connectomics, institutional design, and AI for science. His laboratory at the [[wiki/Francis Crick Institute|Francis Crick Institute]] participated in the collaboration that developed [[wiki/PRISM (E11 Bio)|PRISM]]. Rodriques co-authored the 2020 proposal for [[wiki/Focused Research Organization|Focused Research Organizations]] and is also associated with [[wiki/FutureHouse|FutureHouse]] and its successor nonprofit [[wiki/Edison Scientific|Edison Scientific]]. These are documented role and institutional-design relationships, not evidence that the organizations own or control one another. ## Relationships - **PRISM collaborator:** [[wiki/E11 Bio|E11 Bio]], [[wiki/Ed Boyden|Ed Boyden]], and [[wiki/Joergen Kornfeld|Joergen Kornfeld]]. - **PRISM contribution:** conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing, visualization, supervision, and funding acquisition are listed in the preprint contribution statement. - **Institutional design:** co-author of the published [[wiki/Focused Research Organization|FRO]] proposal. - **AI-for-science route:** [[wiki/FutureHouse|FutureHouse]] and [[wiki/Edison Scientific|Edison Scientific]]. - **Institutional route:** [[wiki/Francis Crick Institute|Francis Crick Institute]]. - **Collection route:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > "we may actually overestimate what we can do in 6 months, and underestimate what we can do in 2 years." > **— Samuel G. Rodriques**, *2025, Edison Scientific announcement* [[reminders/AI Control/We Overestimate Six Months and Underestimate Two Years by Samuel G. Rodriques|We Overestimate Six Months and Underestimate Two Years by Samuel G. Rodriques]]  ## Sources - [E11 Bio — PRISM](https://www.e11.bio/blog/prism) - [FAS — Focused Research Organizations](https://fas.org/publication/focused-research-organizations-to-accelerate-science-technology-and-medicine/) ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0121 — Established.** The PRISM collaboration spans the Crick Institute, Max Planck/LMB Cambridge, MIT, and HHMI under a philanthropically funded nonprofit. Nonprofit structure means the method is published rather than licensed, which accelerates diffusion and removes the usual private bottleneck.  ## Quotations  Quotations here are evidence for named propositions, not substitutes for proof. Confidence grades describe the quotation's provenance; they do not raise the associated scientific or philosophical inference to the same tier. The selection record is [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] and the supplied quotation review dated 2026-09-11. > “how we can measure which things in the world are conscious and which are not conscious” > > — **Samuel G. Rodriques**, research biography. [Source](https://www.sam-rodriques.com/) · **Provenance confidence:** High **Evidentiary role:** articulates the measurement problem behind consciousness indicators. > “Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research” > > — **Samuel G. Rodriques**, 2023 FutureHouse launch essay. [Source](https://www.futurehouse.org/news/announcing-futurehouse) · **Provenance confidence:** High **Evidentiary role:** documents an institutional AI-science mission separate from any uploading claim.