Trump and AI leaders sign voluntary Super Intelligence accord
The agreement calls for company controls, independent reviews and board oversight, but its commitments are voluntary rather than federal law.
An accord separate from the SI naming order
President Donald Trump and leaders of six major AI companies signed a voluntary accord at the White House on September 29, according to the Associated Press. The reported signatories include Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and xAI founder Elon Musk. This agreement concerns oversight of AI development. It is separate from the executive order directing federal agencies to use the term Super Intelligence in official communications.
What the companies pledged
AP reports that the accord calls for robust internal controls, assessment by an independent external auditor and a committee within each company’s board to review internal and external audit reports. Trump called the agreement morally binding and suggested additional oversight, while the accord says these steps might eventually be codified in law or regulation. They are not federal requirements today. The reporting establishes that the leaders signed the accord; it does not show that every company has already implemented the controls or completed an independent audit.
Whether the pledge changes practice will depend on the details companies disclose, the independence of future reviews and how they respond to identified problems. Those outcomes remain unverified.