White House signs voluntary super-intelligence accord with AI firms
Trump and six AI executives signed the voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which Trump called morally binding. It commits signatories to internal capability controls, an empowered safety team, an independent external auditor and a board committee.
Why it mattered It is the first joint commitment on safety controls and audits between frontier AI labs and a US president. It is voluntary and carries no penalties.
Formally the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, the accord was signed at a White House luncheon by Trump with Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang of Nvidia and Elon Musk of xAI. It carries no penalties. The four commitments are internal controls monitoring capabilities and alignment, an empowered internal team, an independent external auditor, and an independent board committee.
The same day, Trump signed an executive order replacing the term AI with Super Intelligence across executive-branch usage.