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summary: "External safety researchers at Hugging Face launched a transparency push on Sept. 12 targeting the way frontier labs develop artificial intelligence models. The effort, led by Thom Wolf, seeks a role in an \"embedded evaluators\" program announced by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, which grants third-party researchers permanent, employee-level access to its internal systems. CEO Clement Delangue said the Open Alignment Initiative is necessary because AI safety cannot be solved by a small number of labs operating behind closed doors. The group aims to integrate with Anthropic's 3 part plan to slow AI development by allowing outsiders to verify safety measures and assess model alignment during training."
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# Hugging Face Launches Open Alignment Initiative to Join Anthropic Safety Program

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**Published:** 2026-09-12T16:44:02.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** huggingface, anthropic, safety, open\-source, regulation

## Summary

External safety researchers at Hugging Face launched a transparency push on Sept\. 12 targeting the way frontier labs develop artificial intelligence models\. The effort, led by Thom Wolf, seeks a role in an "embedded evaluators" program announced by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, which grants third\-party researchers permanent, employee\-level access to its internal systems\. CEO Clement Delangue said the Open Alignment Initiative is necessary because AI safety cannot be solved by a small number of labs operating behind closed doors\. The group aims to integrate with Anthropic's 3 part plan to slow AI development by allowing outsiders to verify safety measures and assess model alignment during training\.

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- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-hugging-face-launches-open-alignment-initiative-to-join-anthropic-372353d3>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2098790988034580852>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/huggingface/status/2098786837229707346>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/2098789346912416136>)