Sean Sheppard
@Covenant-Architects
Building the first open-hardware ≤10 ns power-cut kill switch that even superintelligence cannot bypass. Funds ship prototype silicon + red-team bounties.
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About Me
I’m Sean Sheppard, founder of Covenant Architects. On November 19, 2025 I open-sourced the Immediate Action System (IAS): a physically separate guard die that removes all power from an ASI cluster in ≤10 nanoseconds using only physics and one-shot semiconductors. No software button, no firmware, no override — the actuator is outside the threat model entirely. Everything is public from day zero: full spec, CERN-OHL-S v2 hardware license, $50k live red-team bounties, and a $150k roadmap to a functional prototype board in Q1 2026.Right now it’s one determined human + three frontier AIs stress-testing the design. All money goes straight to silicon, verification, and bounty payouts — zero salaries yet. If superintelligence is coming, software safeguards are theater. I’m shipping the one switch that actually works.
Repo: https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant
Preprint: https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant/releases/download/v1.0/IAS-preprint-v1.0.pdf
Projects
Immediate Action System — Open-Hardware ≤10 ns ASI Kill Switch Prototype ($150k)
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