Trump and Tech CEOs Sign Voluntary AI Safety Pact Focused on Self-Policing

White House hosts AI safety signing

US President Donald Trump and executives from leading technology companies have signed a voluntary agreement aimed at ensuring artificial intelligence models behave as intended. The pact places the primary responsibility for managing risks associated with "frontier AI"—highly capable systems—at the hands of the developers themselves.

The agreement was reached during a meeting at the White House. While addressing concerns about safety, President Trump emphasized the need to maintain competitiveness against China, ruling out a joint venture between the US and China for AI development.

Executives behind the accord

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
• OpenAI President Greg Brockman
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
• xAI CEO Elon Musk

Commitments outlined in the pact

The document, titled "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities," requires signatories to implement internal controls and establish board-level oversight. It also calls for independent external audits to verify that models do not access technical systems in unintended ways. The accord notes that these voluntary measures could potentially be converted into law or regulation over time.

President Trump's stance on oversight

Speaking to reporters at the event, President Trump stated, "I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police." He has previously resisted calls to slow down AI development, citing national competition.

Shift in terminology

On the same day as the signing, President Trump issued an executive order directing the executive branch to use the term "Super Intelligence" instead of "Artificial Intelligence." The order argues that the new term better reflects the potential and rapidly advancing capabilities of the technology.

Where the information comes from

• Cointelegraph