Trump, six top AI CEOs sign voluntary self-policing pact

Donald Trump gathered leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia at the White House on September 29 and had them put their names to a document he called 'morally binding.' It is not legally enforceable. The text of the 'Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities' pledges internal controls to monitor AI models, internal oversight teams, partnerships with independent external auditors, and regular meetings to establish safety standards, Al Jazeera reported.

'Regardless of whether this is required of companies,' the accord reads, 'we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone.'

Trump's framing in the room was blunter. 'There's a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,' he said. David Sacks, the former Trump AI tsar and Silicon Valley investor, cast the moment as a competitive win: 'President Trump continues to ensure that the U.S. remains the technology leader while putting Americans first.'

Not everyone bought the frame. 'What other trillion-dollar industry marks its own homework?' asked Toby Walsh, chief of the UNSW AI Institute. David Krueger, an AI expert at the University of Montreal, put the political read plainly: the administration is continuing its regulate without regulating approach, where everything is ostensibly voluntary.

The signatories were Dario Amodei of Anthropic, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Elon Musk of xAI and Nvidia's Jensen Huang. The accord names no enforcement mechanism, no auditor, and no timeline.

Twenty countries and the European Union have separately called for global coordination on AI. Trump opposes supranational regulation.