Six tech CEOs join Trump in pledging voluntary AI safety framework
Trump and six technology executives signed a voluntary White House accord Tuesday committing to safely develop artificial intelligence. The document the White House distributed misspelled “United States” as “Unites States” beneath the president’s signature.
At the bottom of the accord on “Super Intelligence” — a term Trump has used to rebrand artificial intelligence — the president’s signature appeared as “President of the Unites States”. Trump posted the document containing the misspelling on Truth Social shortly after signing, and the White House Communications Team emailed it out shortly after it was signed.
It is unclear how the misspelling occurred or whether it will appear in the Federal Register, the database that contains official presidential actions and other government documents.
Bloomberg News correspondent David Gura appeared to be the first to notice the spelling error. The Guardian reported the misspelling and asked the White House for comment.
Six tech executives signed alongside Trump. They are Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Elon Musk of SpaceXAI, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Sundar Pichai of Google.
The accord outlines four layers of “controls and audits” intended to ensure AI capabilities operate as intended, according to the document. Companies agreed to implement “robust” internal controls and to partner with an “independent external auditor or evaluator.”
Potential internal controls include empowering teams to monitor and detect that AI is operating correctly, and creating monitors to prevent AI technologies from hacking or accessing technical systems in cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, according to the document. External monitors would also verify the AI is operating as intended, and companies could designate a board committee to oversee reports from teams managing AI controls.
Trump, addressing reporters outside the White House, said: “I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police.” Even while signing the accord on safety, Trump praised the executives for growth, according to the Guardian.
Trump has largely brushed aside concerns about AI harming humans and called for companies to continue developing the technology so the United States can become the global leader in AI, the Guardian reported. The accord leaves open the possibility of codifying the framework into formal regulations or laws — a step Trump has repeatedly rejected.
Public polling indicates broad skepticism of AI development and concern about the government’s response. A New York Times/Siena College poll found that 61% of voters opposed the construction of datacenters, while an SSRS/CNN poll found that 71% of Americans believed the government wasn’t doing enough to regulate AI’s growth and development.
The accord is the first step in addressing concerns raised by industry experts in mid-September, according to the document. The signatories voluntarily committed to safely developing AI amid warnings from industry leaders that the technology is evolving too rapidly to control.