In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety

Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence (AI) — namely, don’t do it.

And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from US government websites to healthcare data, the nation now finds itself further from governing AI systems than it was a few years ago.

President Donald Trump brought tech titans to Washington late last month for a luncheon and ceremonial signing of a voluntary safety pact he described as “almost a constitution” surrounding “Super Intelligence”, the administration’s new preferred term for AI.