[Hugging Face Applies to Join Anthropic for AI Safety Review] Beating AI Newsflash: Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue announced the establishment of the Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, and officially applied to join Anthropic's newly proposed 'Embedded Evaluator' program. If approved, Hugging Face evaluators would be able to work on-site long-term, gaining near-employee-level access to directly inspect model training and safety measures. Delangue stated that AI alignment cannot remain confined to a few cutting-edge labs; more external researchers need to be involved. Anthropic has already committed to granting third parties such access, including workstations, entry permissions, company computers, tools close to the internal risk team, and allowing evaluators to independently publish their findings. [Original Link]