--- title: "Dan Hendrycks: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Dan Hendrycks, Director. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-dan-hendrycks source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Dan Hendrycks, Dan Hendrycks AI, Dan Hendrycks quotes, Dan Hendrycks statements, Dan Hendrycks on AI, what Dan Hendrycks said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Dan Hendrycks, Director. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-dan-hendrycks The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Dan Hendrycks [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-dan-hendrycks) Director · Center for AI Safety ## Why now No headline this week names Dan Hendrycks. ## What they said 4 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Dan Hendrycks, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - May 8, 2025 In the record "I think that mostly the systems aren't that impressive currently." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Security](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-security) · [substack.com](https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/superintelligence-and-national-security) - Mar 7, 2025 In the record "a deterrence regime resembling nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD)" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05628) - Aug 27, 2024 In the record "Like most AI safety researchers, I am in large part driven by a belief in its immense potential to benefit society, and deeply concerned about preserving that potential." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [TIME](https://time.com/7015197/ai-legislation-protects-more-than-just-people/) - May 30, 2023 In the record "We need to be having the conversations that nuclear scientists were having before the creation of the atomic bomb." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Model Releases & Benchmarks](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-models) · [safe.ai](https://safe.ai/work/press-release-ai-risk) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Dan%20Hendrycks#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Dan Hendrycks ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - May 30, 2023 ["We need to be having the conversations that nuclear scientists were having before the creation of the atomic bomb."](https://safe.ai/work/press-release-ai-risk) - Aug 27, 2024 ["Like most AI safety researchers, I am in large part driven by a belief in its immense potential to benefit society, and deeply concerned abo..."](https://time.com/7015197/ai-legislation-protects-more-than-just-people/) - Mar 7, 2025 ["a deterrence regime resembling nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD)"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05628) - May 8, 2025 ["I think that mostly the systems aren't that impressive currently."](https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/superintelligence-and-national-security) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Dan Hendrycks. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Dan Hendrycks with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.