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US President Donald Trump hosted senior technology executives at the White House on Tuesday for what he described as “an extraordinary gathering” of the people building “America’s Golden Age”. Reuters reported on the meeting.
The guest list included executives from “OpenAI”, “Anthropic”, “Nvidia”, “Meta” and “Google”, all major players in the US artificial intelligence industry. The meeting took place as technology leaders and experts called for stronger oversight and, in some cases, a slowdown in AI development because of concerns about potential risks.
Companies agree to AI self-regulation
After the closed-door meeting, Trump answered questions from reporters for about 30 minutes alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson and several technology executives.
Trump said the companies had signed a “morally binding” document intended to provide “a form of protection” against AI-related risks. Under the agreement, which the president published on social media, each company would be responsible for the safety of its own technology.
The document says the firms will introduce safeguards to ensure their models operate as intended, detect and address problems quickly, and work with “independent auditors” to evaluate their systems. They also agreed to ensure that their platforms do not “hack or access technical systems in unintended ways”.
The accord was signed by Trump, “Google” chief executive Sundar Pichai, “Anthropic” chief Dario Amodei, “Meta” founder Mark Zuckerberg, “OpenAI” President Greg Brockman, “SpaceX” founder Elon Musk and “Nvidia” chief executive Jensen Huang.
“It’s almost like a constitution, in a way,” Trump said. “The biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president.”
Trump added that he would establish a board to oversee the safety of AI tools, but did not say who would serve on it. The president has repeatedly dismissed concerns over AI risks as a “hoax” and said the industry needed only a “smart” president as a safeguard.
“OpenAI” and “Anthropic” have recently called for tighter regulation and a slower pace of development. “OpenAI” also said on Monday that it had cancelled the release of its latest flagship model, GPT-6.1 Astra, because of safety concerns.
Trump backs rapid data-centre expansion
Trump reiterated his support for the rapid construction of data centres, the computing infrastructure that powers AI systems. The projects have faced opposition in communities concerned about electricity consumption and their local impact.
Data-centre construction has also become a potential political challenge for Trump’s Republican Party ahead of US midterm elections in November. A Marist Poll survey conducted with NPR and PBS News earlier this month found that 65% of registered voters opposed data centres being built in their communities.
Trump said technology companies would work to make residents “happy” about new facilities by making “massive contributions” to local communities.
Huang said after the meeting that data centres should instead be called “super intelligence factories”. He said the facilities were “reindustrialising the United States” and creating jobs across the economy.
‘Super Intelligence’ replaces AI in government language
Trump also signed an executive order directing US government departments and agencies to use the terms “SI” and “Super Intelligence” instead of artificial intelligence in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory executive-branch documents.
“As these capabilities continue to improve, they increasingly represent not merely artificial intelligence, but a new era of Super Intelligence,” the order said.
During an address to the United Nations General Assembly last week, Trump said the word “artificial” made the technology “sound fake”. Some technology leaders close to the president have already adopted the term.
Zuckerberg wrote on social media on Monday that “superintelligence will create significant new opportunities for all people and businesses”. Musk later reposted a video of technology executives gathered around Trump at the White House with the words “Super Intelligence”.
Some experts, however, said after Trump’s UN speech that the term was unlikely to gain broad acceptance across the industry, where it is generally used to describe more advanced systems.
