Dan Hendrycks — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Director of the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research organization.
Main author of the research paper introducing the activation function GELU (2016).
Main author of the paper introducing the language model benchmark MMLU (2020).
Creator of Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark for evaluating large language models.
Serves as AI safety adviser to xAI and advisor to Scale AI.
Author of the textbook "Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society" (2024).
Holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley (2022).

Biography

Dan Hendrycks is an American machine learning researcher and the Director of the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research organization based in San Francisco, California. His research focuses on machine learning safety, machine ethics, and robustness. He cites Nick Bostrom's book "Superintelligence" as an influence on his decision to focus on AI safety.