President Donald Trump and leading technology executives signed a voluntary, “morally binding” accord on artificial intelligence safety at the White House on Tuesday after a lunch with industry leaders including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Trump said the companies should regulate themselves rather than face new government rules.
“There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,” Trump told reporters. “But the self-regulation’s very important.” He later described the document as having a “tremendous self-policing aspect” and compared it to “almost like a constitution.”
“There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,” Trump told reporters. “But the self-regulation’s very important.” He later described the document as having a “tremendous self-policing aspect” and compared it to “almost like a constitution.”
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Trump then brought the executives outside the West Wing and asked Zuckerberg to explain the framework. “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,” Zuckerberg said. He added that companies have been building to different standards, so they drafted principles and commitments covering robust internal controls, detection of problems, internal risk review, external auditors and evaluators, and independent board review of auditor reports.
The meeting came after Trump in recent weeks dismissed warnings about unregulated AI as a “hoax” and rejected calls from some industry leaders and researchers to proceed more cautiously. Tuesday’s gathering included other figures such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, some of whom have publicly urged stronger guardrails even as the White House emphasized self-policing and existing criminal enforcement. Trump also floated a roughly 10-person committee to watch the sector and said he would later sign an order using “super intelligence” as the official U.S. term for AI.
The meeting came after Trump in recent weeks dismissed warnings about unregulated AI as a “hoax” and rejected calls from some industry leaders and researchers to proceed more cautiously. Tuesday’s gathering included other figures such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, some of whom have publicly urged stronger guardrails even as the White House emphasized self-policing and existing criminal enforcement. Trump also floated a roughly 10-person committee to watch the sector and said he would later sign an order using “super intelligence” as the official U.S. term for AI.