White House AI accord typo: 'president of the Unites States'

The signature line read: "Donald J Trump, president of the Unites States."

The document was the "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities," a voluntary pledge signed at the White House on September 29 and shared the next day on Trump's Truth Social, according to The Guardian. "United" was missing a "d."

The accord brought in the heads of the biggest frontier labs: Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Elon Musk of X and Tesla, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA. The text commits signatories to "ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved," with no legal consequences for breaches, TechCrunch reported. Trump told reporters he preferred "tremendous self-policing" over regulation, and floated an oversight committee of roughly ten members.

Zuckerberg called the day a "start" and "a historic conversation." Bloomberg News correspondent David Gura appeared to be the first to flag the typo publicly; the commentator Aaron Parnas followed on social media: "You couldn't spell United States correctly?"

Trump signed a separate executive order the same day renaming "artificial intelligence," or "AI," as "super intelligence," or "SI." The White House had not indicated whether it planned to correct or reissue the accord.