Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
Would you trust an AI agent with access to your company’s systems? Deploy a robot that has to make sense of an unpredictable physical world? These aren’t hypothetical questions for AI founders anymore.
- ▪Would you trust an AI agent with access to your company’s systems?
- ▪Deploy a robot that has to make sense of an unpredictable physical world?
- ▪These aren’t hypothetical questions for AI founders anymore.
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Would you trust an AI agent with access to your company’s systems? Put your employees in an autonomous vehicle? Deploy a robot that has to make sense of an unpredictable physical world? These aren’t hypothetical questions for AI founders anymore. As AI moves out of demos and into businesses, vehicles, robots, and autonomous agents, safety and security become part of the product. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage put those challenges front and center. From securing agents to getting enterprise AI into production, here’s where founders can dig into what it takes to build artificial intelligence (AI) people and enterprises will actually trust and use.
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