Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue Discusses AI Risks and Open-Source Ecosystem

On November 5, 2026, Clément Delangue, CEO of the open source AI platform Hugging Face, said at WIRED's World Expo in Miami, United States, that he assesses the probability of artificial intelligence causing human extinction, often written as P(Doom), as "close to zero." According to an IT Home report on November 6, 2026, citing WIRED, Delangue argued that the more realistic risk is not "AI destroying the world" in sweeping terms, but a small number of large companies secretly developing frontier models in closed settings. He described the main AI risk as coming not from open ecosystems but from "a few participants working behind closed doors." Delangue proposed that the way to reduce risk is to let more developers build, review, and improve models in public, creating a system of checks and balances. In his view, open weight models are not merely a technical choice; they also serve to prevent a small number of firms from monopolizing talent, compute, and AI capabilities. He added that Hugging Face now has more than 20 million AI developers, up from about 18 million users that were reported when Nvidia announced in September of this year that it would acquire the company for $12.93 billion, which IT Home noted is approximately CNY 86.442 billion at current exchange rates. He also said that the company has sold 50,000 Microducks, bipedal robots that can be programmed through AI. As of the available reports, the public record of this event consists of these remarks and figures, with no further developments documented after Delangue's statements at the expo.