Clément Delangue
Hugging Face
Capability 4Outlook 3
Where they stand
Against all 17 people scored in Week 40. Bars count people at each score; black is Delangue, the dashed line is the average.
What they've said
- Week 39Sept 21 to Sept 27
Said the bigger risk is asymmetry of powerful AI, and that open source is how the world defends itself.
The fourth briefer at the Security Council, and the only one making an argument orthogonal to the whole debate:
The biggest risk is not powerful AI, it's asymmetry of powerful AI.
He is the person at the other end of the July incident, which gives the next line unusual weight:We were attacked by AI, but more importantly, we defended ourselves with AI.
His case is that closed-model safeguards proved counterproductive during the attack, blocking defensive work while failing to distinguish attackers from responders, so
The world needs open source AI more than ever to defend itself.
A 4 and a 3: he accepts fast and dangerous capability, having been on the receiving end, but his remedy is distribution rather than braking. The capability score is a low-confidence read, since he spoke to security dynamics and not to scaling.Sources
Sources
- Security Council meeting 10228, official transcriptUnited Nations, Sept 23
- AI leaders warn of security risks at United Nations briefingCampus Technology, Sept 30