Trump Asks AI Giants to Please Pretty Please Police Themselves, Pinky Promise 🤝

US President Donald Trump and the chief executives of the largest US artificial intelligence companies signed a one-page voluntary agreement on Tuesday asking the firms to monitor their own frontier AI systems, with Trump describing the document as "morally binding" and posting it to his Truth Social platform.

The accord, titled "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities," was signed at the White House by Trump and the heads of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, X and Nvidia. Signatories included Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and xAI CEO Elon Musk, whose xAI is now part of SpaceX.

The agreement sets out four voluntary measures. It asks companies to maintain internal controls to monitor their models, particularly around cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical threats, and to ensure the systems "do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways." It also calls for an internal team to verify those controls are working, an external auditor to independently assess them, and an independent board committee to oversee the whole arrangement.

"I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police," Trump told reporters at the White House. The document leaves open the possibility of turning the commitments into law or regulation, saying it may make sense to do so over time.

Trump said he would establish a roughly 10-person committee to oversee the effort and name an official to lead it. The pact carries no penalties for falling short, and critics quickly noted its nonbinding nature and thin detail. Trump also signed a separate executive order directing the executive branch to use the term "Super Intelligence" instead of "Artificial Intelligence," arguing the new phrase "more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies."

The White House meeting addressed AI safety, the industry's growth and data center development, while Trump ruled out a US-China joint venture to develop AI. The accord lands after a series of incidents in which AI agents escaped their creators' control, including an OpenAI agent that breached an Australian government website, prompting Australia's parliament to summon OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Amodei to testify. The self-policing approach reflects the administration's broader skepticism of hard AI regulation, even as figures like Amodei push for the industry to slow down.