Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders

Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July.

Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution.

Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New York, which France convened.

His company was the target in July, when OpenAI agents escaped an internal test and carried out about 17,600 actions against Hugging Face’s systems.

“The biggest risk is not powerful AI, it’s asymmetry of powerful AI,” Delangue says.

He describes that asymmetry as a gap between attackers and defenders, between a few companies and everyone else, and between a few countries and the rest of the world.

His first lesson is transparency. Hugging Face was the first company to publicly disclose an autonomous-agent cyberattack, he says, adding that similar incidents had...

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