Trump and top tech CEOs sign voluntary accord to self-police AI development President Donald Trump and executives from leading AI companies signed a voluntary accord at the White House that includes internal and external reviews, as Trump promised not to stifle AI growth. U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he and leaders of major artificial intelligence companies signed a voluntary accord that includes internal and external reviews during a White House meeting aimed at addressing Americans fears about the technology. The accord was signed by Trump, 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, now part of SpaceX. Trump posted the accord on his social media site Truth Social late Tuesday. He told reporters during an impromptu press conference outside the West Wing that he is seeing tremendous self-policing. He added that the companies understand they have to self-police.Trump Outlines Voluntary AI AccordTrump said the accord would be morally binding and that about 10 people would be named to a committee to watch over the whole enterprise. He said he would name someone to oversee the agreement in coming days after consulting with industry. The accord opened the door to future regulation but focused on four voluntary steps.The companies would implement robust internal controls, partner with an independent external auditor to assess whether the controls were working, and establish a committee within each companys board of directors to evaluate reports from internal and external auditors. The accord said that over time it may make sense to codify these steps into laws and regulations. Trump repeatedly praised the business executives for developing a technology he said would produce unbelievable growth.Investment in data centers and accompanying computer equipment has accelerated the economy and boosted the stock market, swelling investment accounts for higher-income Americans and lifting their spending. Trump also said the executives agreed to assuage bipartisan opposition to data centers cropping up in local communities by providing more financial support to local schools or taking steps to reduce energy costs.He said data centers are going to be very popular, and suggested that if opposition continued, they would be forced to go overseas or other locations. There were some notes of caution Tuesday. Amodei, one of the most outspoken voices calling for a slowdown in AI development, said the technology has very real risks. He added that the mechanism for how we address those risks is still under discussion.Experts Debate Self-Policing RisksSome of the actions outlined in the accord are measures these companies are already taking in some form or have previously committed to doing. The intention of the accord balances the latitude needed for innovation with regulation, said Shri Narayanan, a university professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California. That innovation is not just limited to improving the capabilities of these AI models, Narayanan said, but also to efforts to improve model safety and security.Other experts are skeptical of putting so much faith in self-policing, like Robin Jia, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California. Jia said it is crucial to ensure the leading labs intentions are well-aligned with the broader interest of the American public. He pointed to recent disclosures of hacking incidents and said that as the models get better, the consequences of such things are only going to get greater.Some also took issue with the accords vague, broad language. Alex Pascal, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, said the only way to reduce the risks and harms of AI to Americans is through robust legal liability, regulation and fundamentally changing the race dynamics that are driving unsafe decision-making by frontier AI developers whose costs are borne by the American people.Earlier Tuesday, Trump promised that the U.S. government would not limit the development of artificial intelligence or support calls for guardrails or other restrictions. He spoke at the unveiling of an AI chatbot, America.gov, intended to help Americans navigate government services. Trump said he will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution, adding that we cannot stifle it and we are leading by a lot.White House Celebrates AI MilestonesThe unveiling occurred at a daylong event in Washington where multiple Trump administration officials celebrated a Golden Age fueled by what Trump insists on calling super intelligence rather than artificial intelligence. Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted that the chatbot at America.gov could soon be used to apply for a first-time passport fully online, without the in-person visit to a processing center currently required.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sat to Trumps right during a White House luncheon meeting, according to a seating chart the president posted on Truth Social. Musk sat to Trumps left. Also Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a television interview that the company is increasingly focused on safety. The day before, his company halted the rollout of a new model over safety concerns.Altman said on CNBC that they are pacing their progress, which includes sometimes not training a model. He said they have to do these in a way where they can make very confident safety cases and claims, so that people do not have a bunch of anxiety.