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Trump and top tech executives sign 'morally binding' AI safety document

Donald Trump signed a voluntary AI safety accord with leading tech executives on Tuesday, describing the document as 'morally binding' and floating a ten-person oversight committee.

By James Calloway · · 2 min read

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Donald Trump signed an artificial-intelligence safety document with top technology executives at the White House on Tuesday, capping a luncheon that drew the biggest names in the industry.

“It’s almost like a Constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that and I signed it as president and it really is a form of protection,” Trump told reporters after the meeting. He described the accord as “morally binding” — a pledge companies are expected to honour but which carries no legal enforcement.

The framework centres on enhanced safety reviews for frontier AI models, internal and external audits, and a self-regulatory approach that lets the companies police themselves rather than face government-imposed mandates, according to reports of the meeting. Crypto Briefing reported that signatories included Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Elon Musk alongside executives from OpenAI, Google and Microsoft.

Trump also floated creating a ten-person oversight committee. “We’re also thinking about forming a committee of sorts where we put maybe 10 people on that committee … so the committee can watch over the whole enterprise,” he said.

The signing builds on a series of voluntary AI commitments stretching back to 2023, when the Biden White House secured pledges from many of the same companies on watermarking AI-generated content, sharing safety research and testing models before release.

Trump has argued previously that the US does not need new AI-specific regulations, telling world leaders at last week’s UN General Assembly that he “rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control” AI.

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