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Dan Hendrycks
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Dan Hendrycks is an American machine learning researcher and director of the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research organization.
Biography
Dan Hendrycks is an American machine learning researcher born in 1994 or 1995. He serves as director of the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research organization based in San Francisco, California.
His book, Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society, addresses the risks associated with increasingly capable and widely adopted AI systems. It examines malicious use, accidental failures, competitive pressures that can weaken safety standards, and potential loss of control over autonomous systems. Drawing on safety engineering, economics, and other fields, the book presents AI safety as a societal challenge extending beyond machine learning research.
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Books by Dan Hendrycks
Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society
Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society examines AI risks, including malicious use, accidental failures, weakened safety standards, and potential loss of control over autonomous systems. It integrates technical developments with insights from safety engineering, economics, and other fields to explain concepts for understanding and managing those risks.