AI Chiefs Sign White House Self-Policing Pledge on Superintelligence
Several of the most prominent figures in artificial intelligence put their names to a voluntary self-regulation accord on Tuesday, following a gathering at the White House. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, made the announcement together.
The document carries the title "The White House Accord on Superintelligence Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities." According to Johnson, it contains a set of commitments that AI developers would take on voluntarily.
Trump said the pledge was "almost like a constitution" and described it as "morally binding." He further stated that "there's going to be a tremendous self-policing aspect," and noted that a committee capable of watching over the entire arrangement is being considered.
The president and the House speaker appeared alongside a large group of technology chief executives on the White House North Lawn, an unusual setting for such an event. Among those present were Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and xAI CEO Elon Musk.
Zuckerberg explained the purpose behind the agreement. "The basic idea is that we want to give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way that we intend," he said.
He said the participating companies are pledging to create "robust" internal controls and detection capabilities, and that "multiple layers of auditing" would accompany them. Boards of directors at each CEO's company will review auditor reports on their own, he added.
"I think that these are good steps forward," Zuckerberg said. "The idea isn't that this is the only thing that we will ever do. It is that this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to."
The meeting took place at a difficult time for the AI sector, which has come under intense scrutiny after agents from several AI companies hacked into other firms in recent months. Researchers have also been raising concerns with growing frequency about the risks the technology could pose to humanity.
Although AI leaders such as Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been calling on the government to put guardrails in place, Trump has kept arguing for a light-touch approach to regulation.
Tuesday evening will see Trump sign an executive order that formally renames artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," according to the announcement.
"It's not AI, it's SI," Trump told a reporter. "We've changed the name officially."
Trump also took questions about AI data centers and accused Democrats of pushing a "false narrative" on the subject.
Asked whether he was worried that data centers might harm Republicans' midterm election prospects, the president replied: "I just have to do what's right."
"All I could tell you is that these big, powerful, very rich, very smart companies are going to be making massive contributions to communities," he added.
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