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<h2 class="unnumbered" id="acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</h2>
<p>It would not have been possible to complete a book of this scale on my own without spending several years on it. 
This would have significantly  reduced the book's value, given how urgent it is for us to understand and address important AI risks.
 I received invaluable support during the research, writing and editing process from various assistants, collaborators, and reviewers
 both at CAIS and externally that enabled me to complete this textbook in a more timely way.</p>

<p>I would like to acknowledge the major contributions to the textbook’s chapters made by the following people:</p>
<ol>
<li><p><strong>Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks</strong>: Mantas Mazeika and Thomas Woodside</p></li>
<li><p><strong>AI Fundamentals</strong>: Anna Swanson, Jeremy Hadfield, Adam
Elwood, and Corin Katzke</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Single-Agent Safety</strong>: Jesse Hoogland, Adam Khoja, Thomas
Woodside, Abra Ganz, Aidan O’Gara, Spencer Becker-Kahn, Jeremy Hadfield,
and Joshua Clymer</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Safety Engineering</strong>: Laura Hiscott and Suryansh
Mehta</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Complex Systems</strong>: Laura Hiscott and Max Heitmann</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Beneficial AI and Machine Ethics</strong>: Suryansh Mehta, Shankara Srikantan, Aron
Vallinder, Jeremy Hadfield, and Toby Tremlett</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Collective Action Problems</strong>: Ivo Andrews, Sasha Cadariu, Avital Morris,
and David Lambert</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Governance</strong>: Jonas Schuett, Robert Trager, Lennart
Heim, Matthew Barnett, Mauricio Baker, Thomas Woodside, Suryansh Mehta,
Laura Hiscott, and Shankara Srikantan</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Appendix A - Normative Ethics</strong>: Toby Tremlett and Suryansh Mehta</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Appendix B - Utility Functions</strong>: Suryansh Mehta and Shankara
Srikantan</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I am deeply grateful to the following key individuals for their
help in driving this project forward:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Jay Kim and William Hodgkins (Project Manager)</p></li>
<li><p>Rebecca Rothwell and Suryansh Mehta (Editor)</p></li>
<li><p>Corin Katzke (Course Manager)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I also want to thank Mantas Mazeika, Paul Salmon, Matthew Lutz, 
Bryan Daniels, Martin Stoffel, Charlotte Siegmann, Lena Trabucco, 
Casey Mahoney, the 2023 CAIS philosophy fellows, and the participants in our AI Safety Sprint Course
for their helpful feedback throughout the writing and revision
process. All errors that remain are, of course, my own.</p>
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<p>Dan Hendrycks</p>
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