Clement Delangue

Clément Delangue briefed the UN Security Council on September 23, 2026, advocating for open-source AI as essential to global security. After Hugging Face defended against a July 2026 AI agent cyberattack, Delangue testified: "The biggest risk is not powerful AI, it's asymmetry of powerful AI" and "The world needs open source AI more than ever to defend itself." He called for mandatory incident disclosure standards and cautioned against fear-based narratives using "anthropomorphic framing and sci-fi imagery."

Clément Delangue has built Hugging Face as a fully remote-first company with employees distributed across 30+ countries. The company offers 20 weeks of fully paid, gender-neutral parental leave to all parents regardless of their path to parenthood. Delangue himself took a full three months of paternity leave as CEO. Hugging Face operates with an async-first culture prioritizing deep work over mandatory meetings, in stark contrast to tech industry return-to-office mandates.

Clément Delangue testified to U.S. House Science Committee on June 22, 2023 that "open science and open-source AI are critical to incentivize and are extremely aligned with American values and interests." He argued broadening access allows researchers to "better understand systems, conduct audits, mitigate risks, and find high-value applications" and that "open systems foster democratic governance" and help "solve critical security concerns by enabling safety research."