Dan Hendrycks

Executive & Research Director

Dan Hendrycks is the executive director of the Center for AI Safety and an advisor to xAI and Scale AI. 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. Update: Hendrycks is working on safety and evaluations at Meta.