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Intro to ML Safety

Center for AI Safety

FreeadvancedVideo series

Dan Hendrycks' technical course on safety engineering, adversarial robustness, anomaly detection, trojans, machine ethics and systemic AI risk, with coding assignments. For ML practitioners and graduate students who want hands-on exposure to empirical AI safety research.

Who it's for

Everyone — especially policymakers, leaders, and researchers. This is an advanced course in AI Ethics, Safety & Policy, running about Approx. 8 weeks of lectures and assignments, self-paced.

Cost at a glance

Free. Lectures, slides, notes and coding assignments are openly available; a facilitated virtual program runs periodically by application. Seen 2026-11-01.

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