--- title: Dan Hendrycks | TIME description: Hendrycks is the director of the Center for AI Safety canonical: https://time.com/author/dan-hendrycks/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/dan-hendrycks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Dan Hendrycks ## Dan Hendrycks Hendrycks is the director of the Center for AI Safety ## Dan Hendrycks *  Mar 6, 2025 ### [The Nuclear-Level Risk of Superintelligent AI](https://time.com/7265056/nuclear-level-risk-of-superintelligent-ai/) AI researcher Dan Hendrycks and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt stress the dangers posed by superinte... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 27, 2024 ### [In Support of California's AI Bill](https://time.com/7015197/ai-legislation-protects-more-than-just-people/) Why California's draft AI law SB 1047, supported by Elon Musk, should be passed. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 31, 2023 ### [The Darwinian Argument for Worrying About AI](https://time.com/6283958/darwinian-argument-for-worrying-about-ai/) As the autonomy of AIs increases, so will their control over the key decisions that influence societ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/dan-hendrycks/","name":"Dan Hendrycks"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/dan-hendrycks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/dan-hendrycks/"},"name":"Dan Hendrycks","jobTitle":"Hendrycks is the director of the Center for AI Safety","description":"Hendrycks is the director of the Center for AI Safety","url":"https://time.com/author/dan-hendrycks/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```