Five Must-Attend AI Safety Sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for Founders
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.
Building the next generation of AI? Secure your pass to Disrupt and add these five AI safety sessions to your agenda. Save up to $200 on your pass before September 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. Get a second pass at 50% off.
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1. What Anthropic Sees When Enterprise AI Goes Wrong โ and How to Fix It
As AI agents gain access to critical systems and sensitive data, understanding failure modes becomes essential. This session dives into real-world enterprise AI incidents and the strategies that prevent them. Founders will learn how to architect for safety from day one and build trust with enterprise customers.
2. Securing Autonomous Agents Before They Ship
Autonomous agents that act on behalf of users introduce a new class of security risks. This session covers threat modeling, permission boundaries, and runtime safeguards that keep agents from going rogue. If you're shipping agentic products, this is non-negotiable knowledge.
3. Safety at Scale: Lessons from Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics
Physical-world AI raises the stakes of every decision. Industry veterans share how they approach safety validation, edge cases, and regulatory compliance for vehicles and robots operating in unpredictable environments. Applicable far beyond transportation, these lessons translate directly to any AI system where failure has real consequences.
4. From Pilot to Production: Getting Enterprise AI Approved
Enterprise buyers demand more than impressive demos. This session explores the security reviews, compliance requirements, and stakeholder concerns that determine whether AI products make it into production. Founders will learn how to navigate procurement, address risk objections, and build products that pass enterprise scrutiny.
5. Building AI People Will Actually Trust
Trust is the ultimate product feature. This session brings together founders and researchers to discuss transparency, explainability, and the human factors that drive adoption. Learn how to design AI systems that earn confidence rather than demand it.
Don't miss these conversations shaping the future of AI safety. Secure your pass to Disrupt and save up to $200 before September 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. Get a second pass at 50% off.