--- title: Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors talk AI at Disrupt 2026 description: An event promotion piece for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 previews a panel titled 'Building AI Systems When Failure Is Not an Option,' featuring Shield AI CTO... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/shield-ai-waabi-and-general-motors-talk-ai-at-disrupt-2026-neqsanp9q twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors talk AI at Disrupt 2026 | daily.dev og:description: An event promotion piece for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 previews a panel titled 'Building AI Systems When Failure Is Not an Option,' featuring Shield AI CTO... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/shield-ai-waabi-and-general-motors-talk-ai-at-disrupt-2026-neqsanp9q og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/neqSANP9Q.png og:image:alt: Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors talk AI at Disrupt 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors talk AI at Disrupt 2026 **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An event promotion piece for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 previews a panel titled 'Building AI Systems When Failure Is Not an Option,' featuring Shield AI CTO Nathan Michael, Waabi founder Raquel Urtasun, and General Motors robotics strategy director Mikell Taylor. The panel will discuss deploying AI in high-stakes physical environments like defense drones, autonomous trucks, and industrial robots, covering safety culture, testing, validation, and regulatory challenges. The piece includes background on each speaker's career and company, plus repeated calls to purchase discounted conference tickets before a September 25 deadline. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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