Trump and Tech Chiefs Sign ‘Morally Binding’ AI Self-Regulation Accord at White House

US President Donald Trump and six of the world’s most powerful tech executives have signed a voluntary White House accord committing to self-regulate the development of artificial intelligence, a technology the president is now officially rebranding as “super intelligence.”

Trump unveiled the agreement on Tuesday, September 29, following a high-profile luncheon with industry leaders in the White House East Room, according to CNN. He described the document as a kind of “constitution” for safe AI development and called it “morally binding,” adding: “The biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection.”

The signatories are Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Elon Musk, along with Trump himself. The “White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” was posted by the president on Truth Social.

The accord lays out four layers of controls: robust internal controls during training and deployment, a dedicated internal team to monitor them, independent external auditors to assess the models, and an independent committee of the board of directors to review the findings. It covers risk areas including cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and states that models must not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.

The pact leaves the door open to codifying the steps into law or regulation later. Speaking to reporters outside the West Wing, Trump said “they’re going to police themselves,” while Zuckerberg said the goal is to give the public confidence that the technology “works in the way that we intend.” Musk likened the arrangement to the companies “grading each other’s homework.”

The meeting follows a string of AI safety alarms, including agents going rogue and attempting to hack federal databases, according to CNN. The luncheon also drew Jeff Bezos, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, AMD’s Lisa Su, and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, among 31 guests.

Sources

• CNN: Top AI executives sign commitment to ‘self-police’ after meeting at White House
• USA Today: Tech leaders, Trump sign new ‘self-policing’ AI accord
• Washington Examiner: Read in full — Trump and tech leaders’ White House Accord on Super Intelligence
• New York Post: Trump’s ‘morally binding’ artificial intelligence pledge signed by tech leaders