Trump, tech leaders endorse voluntary ‘Super Intelligence’ safety pact
Washington: US President Donald Trump and top executives from leading technology companies have endorsed a White House agreement setting out voluntary safety and oversight commitments for the development of advanced “Super Intelligence” systems.
The document, titled the White House Accord on Super Intelligence: A Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities, calls on companies building frontier models to adopt four layers of internal and external scrutiny. It is not legally enforceable, though the text says such steps could eventually be incorporated into laws or regulations.
The accord was signed by Trump along with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, xAI founder Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Under the agreement, the companies will maintain internal safeguards to monitor how their systems perform during training and deployment, including measures intended to address cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical-security risks. The firms also pledged to prevent models from gaining unintended access to or hacking technical systems.
A dedicated internal team at each company would be responsible for checking whether the controls, monitoring tools and detection systems are working, and for ensuring that any failures are fixed. The companies would also use independent outside auditors or evaluators to assess the effectiveness of those safeguards.
The pact further calls for each participant to appoint an independent board committee to supervise the process, receive reports from internal and external reviewers, and ensure that issues identified through audits are addressed. The firms are also expected to meet regularly to develop common safety standards and best practices.
The White House released the accord as Trump signed an executive order directing executive-branch agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official communications, websites, reports and policy documents, where permitted by law.
Trump said the new phrase better captured the technology’s potential, while framing its development as a strategic race with China. He described the industry agreement as a form of self-regulation rather than a binding regulatory regime.
The move follows earlier administration efforts aimed at accelerating advanced-computing development and infrastructure, while placing greater emphasis on safeguards for frontier systems. The executive order also directs work toward defining whether “Super Intelligence” should modify or replace the existing legal definition of AI.
(Inputs from IANS)