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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Garance Burke

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

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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 — namely, don’t do it.

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

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