Thomas Wolf on Open-source AI is more dangerous than c…

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face.

When a frontier model is attacking you and moving laterally inside your infrastructure, defenders need wide access to near-frontier tools within hours or even minutes, rather than being pointed toward a closed-door platform.

AI Verified (Jul 22, 2026)

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Thomas Wolf, quoted by the Associated Press, July 22, 2026.

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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI

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AI Verified Wolf argues defenders need capable open access; this strongly opposes the claim open-source AI is more dangerous. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Advocacy for broad access to open-source tools supports the recorded against answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified AP source and corroborating Thomas Wolf post report the exact wording; attribution is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence

AI progress has already out-paced society’s capabilities to handle it, let’s be careful for it not to out-pace its builder’s capabilities to control it. The journey is as important as the destination.

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

AI progress has already out-paced society’s capabilities to handle it, let’s be careful for it not to out-pace its builder’s capabilities to control it. The journey is as important as the destination.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

AI progress has already out-paced society’s capabilities to handle it, let’s be careful for it not to out-pace its builder’s capabilities to control it. The journey is as important as the destination.

Unverifiable source (Jul 2026)

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