Silicon Valley's biggest names walked out of the White House on Tuesday with a promise to watch themselves. President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that leading AI firms had signed onto a voluntary "White House Accord on Superintelligence," a set of self-imposed rules for developing high-end artificial intelligence—or "super intelligence," as Trump plans to formally rebrand it in federal documents via executive order. Trump called the pact "almost like a constitution" and "morally binding," emphasizing "tremendous self-policing," the Hill reports.
Trump suggested that a committee of around 10 people would be appointed to "watch over the whole enterprise," the AP reports. On the North Lawn, executives including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jensen Huang said they'll build stronger internal controls, detection tools, and layered audits, with independent board committees reviewing findings. Zuckerberg described the accord as an opening move, not a final safeguard, for a sector under mounting scrutiny. "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," the Meta CEO said.
Pichai, Google's CEO, said the companies are "signing up to a set of processes and controls like we do in other areas, like financial controls, in a company." Trump said his lunch meeting with the tech execs was "very productive," the AP reports. He doubled down on his defense of data centers, saying companies would provide tax revenue to communities and donate to education. Data centers "are going to be very popular," because tech leaders "want to see communities that are safe and happy," he said. Earlier Tuesday, the White House unveiled an official government chatbot.
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