Trump and AI CEOs Sign Voluntary ‘Morally Binding’ Accord on Self-Policing

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President Donald Trump met leaders of America's top artificial-intelligence companies for a luncheon at the White House on Tuesday, September 29, and announced that he and the executives had signed a voluntary accord built around internal and external safety reviews.

“I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump told reporters during an impromptu press conference outside the West Wing.

The accord was signed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk, founder of xAI. Trump released the text on Truth Social. It calls on the companies to implement “robust internal controls,” work with an independent external auditor, and create board-level committees to evaluate auditors' reports. The document adds that “over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws and regulations.” Trump described the one-page document as “morally binding” and “almost like a constitution in a way.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump unveiled an AI chatbot called America.gov intended to help Americans navigate government services, and said he would not limit AI development: “I will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution.” He also announced the federal government would use the term “Super Intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence” in official documents.

Democratic Senator Mark Warner criticized the voluntary approach, arguing that frontier AI models need mandatory congressional testing and incident-reporting laws rather than a renaming exercise, according to tech outlet Zubiqo.