Dan Hendrycks

Dan Hendrycks is the Editor-in-Chief of AI Frontiers. He is also the founder and Director of the Center for AI Safety, which funds this publication.

Suicidal Compassion: How Utilitarianism at AI Companies Endangers Humanity

Utilitarians at AI companies imagine a cosmos filled with blissful AIs. They might risk human extinction to achieve it.

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Sep 9, 2026

We Need Better Infrastructure to Govern AI Agents

Society is not prepared for a flood of agents. We need new protocols and standards, such as Agent ID, to make agents accountable to our legal and financial systems.

AI Deterrence Is Our Best Option

A response to critiques of Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM).

The Misguided Quest for Mechanistic AI Interpretability

Despite years of effort, mechanistic interpretability has failed to provide insight into AI behavior — the result of a flawed foundational assumption.

AIs Are Disseminating Expert-Level Virology Skills

New research shows frontier models outperform human scientists in troubleshooting virology procedures—lowering barriers to the development of biological weapons.

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