EXECUTIVE BRIEF:
On Sept. 29, 2026, President Trump and the leaders of six technology companies signed a voluntary White House accord committing their companies to police the safety of frontier AI models through internal controls and outside audits. The signers are Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. The same day, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to call the technology “super intelligence.”
The accord sets out four layers of oversight for each company: internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of models, an internal team to oversee those controls, independent external auditors, and an independent board committee that receives their reports.
Signers also agreed to “meet regularly to establish standards and best practices.” It is not legally binding, though it says it “may make sense” to codify the measures later. The executive order replaces “artificial intelligence” and “AI” with “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in agency communications, websites, reports and policy documents.
The signing came a day after OpenAI said it would not release GPT-6.1 Astra, after it failed internal tests on honesty and scope. The accord names no auditors and sets no enforcement mechanism. Toby Walsh of the University of New South Wales AI Institute told Al Jazeera the companies were marking “their own homework.”
The order gives the president’s science and technology adviser 60 days, until Nov. 28, to propose a legal definition of super intelligence.
Trump and six tech leaders signed a voluntary White House accord on SI safety audits, and an executive order renamed the technology ‘super intelligence.’
Sources
- The White House, “Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates the Era of Super Intelligence,” Sept. 29, 2026
- Nextgov/FCW, “White House unveils ‘super intelligence’ executive order and industry accord,” Sept. 2026
- Al Jazeera, “Trump, tech bosses sign voluntary pact pledging ‘robust’ AI safeguards,” Sept. 29, 2026
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