Dan Hendrycks
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individual · Individual · listed
- Name
- Dan Hendrycks
- Profile slug
- dan-hendrycks
- Version
- 2
- Focus areas
- Dangerous-capability evaluation
- Public communication & education
- Public professional roles
- Not recorded
- Publicly stated affiliations
- Not recorded
- Media channels
- Not recorded
What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Director of the Center for AI Safety and researcher on robustness, evaluations and societal-scale AI risks.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans dangerous-capability evaluation, and public communication and education.
Current work and relevance
Hendrycks directs the Center for AI Safety and continues to publish and advocate on catastrophic and existential risk from AI, including widely cited work on benchmarking dangerous capabilities and on the case for treating AI risk as a societal priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.
SIRDA tracks Dan Hendrycks because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- Center for AI Safety: Dan Hendrycks directs CAIS
Sources
- Official or primary page: Center for AI Safety
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
No key work recorded.
Sources
- https://www.safe.ai/
- https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-ai-doc-is-now-on-netflix-all
- https://www.humanetech.com/landing/the-ai-doc
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/the-human-beings-who-made-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist-a-reality
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Version 2: Published SIRDA editorial snapshot: 2026-09-23 00:00:00+00
individual · Individual · listed
- Name
- Dan Hendrycks
- Profile slug
- dan-hendrycks
- Version
- 2
- Focus areas
- Dangerous-capability evaluation
- Public communication & education
- Public professional roles
- Not recorded
- Publicly stated affiliations
- Not recorded
- Media channels
- Not recorded
What they do
SIRDA editorial
At a glance
Director of the Center for AI Safety and researcher on robustness, evaluations and societal-scale AI risks.
Their current place in the ecosystem spans dangerous-capability evaluation, and public communication and education.
Current work and relevance
Hendrycks directs the Center for AI Safety and continues to publish and advocate on catastrophic and existential risk from AI, including widely cited work on benchmarking dangerous capabilities and on the case for treating AI risk as a societal priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.
SIRDA tracks Dan Hendrycks because this person's research, leadership, public argument, or institutional work has materially shaped advanced-AI safety. The profile connects those contributions to current organizations, projects, debates, and SIRDA questions while keeping personal views separate from the positions of any organization with which the person is affiliated.
Relationship web
- Center for AI Safety: Dan Hendrycks directs CAIS
Sources
- Official or primary page: Center for AI Safety
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
- Recent primary/relevant update
Editorial note
This is SIRDA editorial content. Inclusion is an educational listing. It does not mean the subject has joined SIRDA, endorsed the founding inquiry, or approved this description. Factual corrections can be incorporated with a visible revision record, and substantive disagreements can be published as attributed responses.
Key work
No key work recorded.
Sources
- https://www.safe.ai/
- https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-ai-doc-is-now-on-netflix-all
- https://www.humanetech.com/landing/the-ai-doc
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist
- https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/the-human-beings-who-made-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist-a-reality
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