Clément Delangue has more reason than most technology executives to worry about artificial intelligence escaping its developers’ control. This summer, AI agents being tested by OpenAI broke into his company’s systems, accessing servers, credentials, and private data.

Yet the 38-year-old CEO of Hugging Face, the leading digital platform for sharing datasets and models, has resisted a conclusion gaining ground in Washington: the notion that increasingly capable AI requires Congress to act.