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Hugging Face Launches Open Alignment Push
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf argued alignment can't be solved behind closed doors, then announced an Open Alignment team to pursue open-source safety work.
2026-09-10 ~ 2026-09-11 · 2 episodes · 5 posts
Episode 1 · Hugging Face Co-founder Thom Wolf: Alignment Can't Be Solved Behind Closed Doors (2026-09-10, 2 posts)
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf argues that alignment is a critical unsolved problem for AI's future and cannot be solved behind closed doors at frontier labs, calling for open safety and alignment research and open-source models for defensive purposes.
- Hugging Face's Thom Wolf calls for open safety research and open-weight AI models for defense — Thom_Wolf · 2026-09-10
- Wolf: Alignment Won't Be Solved Behind Closed Doors at Frontier Labs — Thom_Wolf · 2026-09-11
Episode 2 · Hugging Fape launches Open Alignment team for open-model safety (2026-09-11, 3 posts)
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf announced an FT op-ed on the OpenAI/HF incident and the creation of a new Open Alignment team focused on safety and alignment of open-source models.
- Hugging Face Launches Open Alignment Team, Wolf Demands 100x More Transparency — Thom_Wolf · 2026-09-11
- Hugging Face launches Open Alignment team for open model safety and alignment — reach_vb · 2026-09-11
- Hugging Face launches Open Alignment team for open-model safety after FT op-ed — CFGeek · 2026-09-11