In 2021, former OpenAI vice presidents of research and safety, siblings Dario and Daniella Amodei, founded Anthropic (Fortune Editors, 2023). They were joined by 11 OpenAI employees who reportedly believed that the company had wandered from…While ringing the alarm about these hypothetical apocalyptic scenarios, TESCREALists simultaneously create organizations to pursue building the very AGI that they warn could render us extinct, because they would do it in a way that is “safe…
Dan Hendrycks
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Hendrycks is a researcher focused on AI safety and robustness, particularly known for work on out-of-distribution detection and adversarial examples in machine learning. In these readings, he appears in the context of TESCREAL discourse—the alignment between existential risk narratives and institutions like Anthropic that position themselves as solving the very dangers they theorize, illustrating how safety framings can simultaneously motivate and justify AGI development. His work on failure modes in AI systems exemplifies the technical concerns that ground the existential safety arguments the course examines critically.
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