Trump says tech CEOs signed ‘morally binding’ document to self-regulate artificial intelligence
President Donald Trump told reporters in a rare impromptu press conference outside of the White House that he and technology CEOs signed a “morally binding” agreement to self-regulate artificial intelligence as public fears mount about the technology’s development.
Although Trump conceded that the “White House Accord on Superintelligence: A Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities” is not binding, he compared it to a constitution.
“It’s almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection,” he said.
Trump also mentioned a committee to manage AI development, but it is unclear whether that is different from the task force and czar he announced last week, though the president added he would name the czar in “the next three or four days.”
Trump appeared alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and tech CEOs outside the West Wing, from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who have publicly supported regulations, in addition to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who have opposed them.
For Johnson, the agreement was a statement of principles, standards, expectations, and “commitments that are voluntary on behalf of the industry.”
“It’s, in short summary, robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review,” he said. “That’s important because you need people to be providing oversight and transparency, and that’s what these leaders are going to do. The White House and Congress will continue to guide the industry’s development in a safe manner because we owe that to the American people, and we will do it.”
Amodei, who has led the calls for a coordinated slowdown in AI frontier model development, told reporters that he continued to consider the technology to have “very real risks.”
“The mechanism [of] how we address those risks is still under discussion, but we all need to work, we all need to work together to make sure that we can win and we can win safely,” he said. “If we do this right, we work with the president and everyone here, we can win safely.”
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At the same time, Trump, during the same press conference, remained adamant that Democrats’ concerns about AI safety were a “hoax.”
“I think they would love to see it shut down, just like it was a hoax for 12 years for global warming,” he said. “What I am calling a hoax is what the Democrats do, because they don’t want to see it be successful, because they think that’s bad for Republicans.”
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