AI Founders Thrilled That Fox Has Volunteered To Guard Henhouse, Promise To Take Job Very Seriously
- Who
- AI founders and venture capitalists at San Francisco Tech Week
- What
- Cheered the Trump administration's call for the AI industry to self-regulate on safety
- When
- October 11, 2026
- Where
- San Francisco, California
At Tech Week in San Francisco, venture capitalists and AI founders expressed enthusiasm for the White House's hands-off approach to AI regulation. The administration has called for the industry to police itself on safety matters rather than face government oversight. Attendees described the self-regulatory framework as a positive development for innovation.
There is a particular comfort in watching the people who build black-box systems that hallucinate legal citations volunteer to write their own guardrails. An industry whose business model is 'move fast and break things' has now been handed the clipboard and asked to inspect its own scaffolding, and they assure us the inspection will be rigorous — right after this funding round closes. Our analysts note the fox has not only been put in charge of the henhouse but has also been given the blueprints, the key, and a notarized letter saying 'trust me.'
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