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Entity	Property	Value	As Of
Dan Hendrycks	Notable For	AI safety research; benchmark creation; CAIS leadership; catastrophic risk focus	Mar 2026

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# Dan Hendrycks

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Dan Hendrycks is the founder and executive director of the Center for AI Safety. He received his PhD in AI from UC Berkeley. He has contributed the GELU activation function (the most-used activation in state-of-the-art models including BERT, GPT, Vision Transformers, etc.), benchmarks and methods in robustness, MMLU, and an Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society.

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[Can We Manage the Risks of General-Purpose AI Systems?](https://www.techpolicy.press/can-we-manage-the-risks-of-generalpurpose-ai-systems)

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