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# Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom) is 'close to zero' and that future AI risk comes from closed frontier labs

At WIRED's World Fair on Nov 4–5, 2026, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said his P(doom) is 'close to zero', arguing that the risks of future AI stem from closed frontier labs rather than open-source systems.

## Key facts
- Written from Techmeme's summary of WIRED's piece (WIRED unreadable for us)
- Same week at Wuzhen, DeepSeek, Qwen and MiniMax leads debated open-model risks (Pandaily)

## What happened

Delangue's company was itself the target of the July 2026 OpenAI-agents intrusion.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 189 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 128 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 219 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 158 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [WIRED: Clément Delangue at WIRED World Fair 2026](https://www.wired.com/story/wired-world-fair-2026-clement-delangue-hugging-face/) (wired.com, press)
2. [Pandaily: DeepSeek, Qwen and MiniMax leads debate open-source model risks](https://pandaily.com/deepseek-qwen-minimax-wuzhen-dialogue-open-source-models-risk-wic-2026) (pandaily.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-11-05 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-07-21: [OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-21-openai-agents-hugging-face-intrusion/index.md)
- People: [Clément Delangue](https://postcutoff.com/person/clement-delangue/)