policy-stakeholder
Dan Hendrycks on Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Child of Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Metadata
| Source Table | policy_stakeholders |
| Source ID | j9ucxwfqsb |
| Source URL | sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wieners-landmark-ai-bill-passes-assembly |
| Parent | Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act |
| Children | — |
| Created | Mar 21, 2026, 1:30 AM |
| Updated | Mar 21, 2026, 3:12 PM |
| Synced | Mar 21, 2026, 3:12 PM |
Record Data
id | j9ucxwfqsb |
policyEntityId | Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act(policy) |
stakeholderEntityId | Dan Hendrycks(person) |
stakeholderDisplayName | Dan Hendrycks |
position | support |
importance | high |
reason | CAIS director who helped draft the original bill; called its passage 'a landmark moment for AI safety'; organized AI safety research community support and stated the bill was 'in the long-term interest of industry' because 'a major safety incident would likely be the biggest roadblock to further adv… |
source | sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wieners-landmark-ai-bill-passes-assembly |
context | [ "Director of Center for AI Safety (also supports)", "CAIS funded by Open Philanthropy (~$15M)", "Lead author of the Statement on AI Risk (2023) signed by Hinton, Bengio, and others", "Advisor to xAI (Elon Musk's company; Musk also supports)" ] |
Source Check Verdicts
confirmed95% confidence
Last checked: 4/14/2026
The source text explicitly identifies Dan Hendrycks as Executive Director of CAIS (Center for AI Safety). The record claims he is a stakeholder with unknown affiliation. The source confirms his role and organizational affiliation, so the record's claim is confirmed. The '(unknown)' designation in the record is contradicted by the source, which clearly identifies his affiliation as CAIS Executive Director.
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