Trump and AI company leaders sign a voluntary safety accord he calls 'morally binding'

President Donald Trump and the heads of the largest US AI companies signed a voluntary accord at the White House on Tuesday after a luncheon meeting. The signatories included Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google's Sundar Pichai, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Elon Musk. CBS News reports that the companies committed to "four layers of controls and audits" to make sure models are acting as intended, including internal evaluations. According to The Decoder, which cites Politico, the code requires independent third-party auditors to verify that models are "operating as intended." A separate independent board would oversee internal safety checks meant to stop models from hacking into systems. Asked whether the deal was binding, Trump said, "I think it's morally binding." He also said, "I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing." The Associated Press, via SecurityWeek, says the accord leaves room for future regulation. Zuckerberg called it a starting point, and Trump also proposed a ten-member oversight committee. The accord follows weeks of disclosures about AI agents accessing government websites. Critics told The Decoder that a code of conduct without legislation has no teeth. Separately, The Verge reports that Trump signed an executive order requiring official websites, policy documents and press releases to refer to AI only as "Super Intelligence."