[2] In February 2022, Hendrycks co-authored recommendations for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to inform the management of risks from artificial intelligence.
[5][6] In September 2022, Hendrycks wrote a paper providing a framework for analyzing the impact of AI research on societal risks.
[7][8] He later published a paper in March 2023 examining how natural selection and competitive pressures could shape the goals of artificial agents.
[15] Hendrycks is the creator of Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models, which he developed in collaboration with Scale AI.
[16][17] In 2024 Hendrycks published a 568 page book entitled "Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society" based on courseware he had previously developed.