AI chiefs sign a White House pledge that is only morally binding
Executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Nvidia signed a Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities that carries no legal force.
President Trump and AI leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang and Elon Musk signed an AI code of conduct at the White House on Tuesday, The Decoder reported. Tom's Hardware names the document the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities and lists Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Nvidia among the signatories.
The Decoder says the pledge is only "morally binding". It calls for outside auditors to check that models work as intended, and for a separate independent board to oversee internal safety checks meant to stop AI hacking into systems. The Decoder says what happens if a company breaks the rules is an open question. Ars Technica described it as voluntary safety tests.
Trump said his earlier claims that AI safety fears were a hoax no longer apply now that the technology has been renamed, The Verge reported. Tom's Hardware separately reported an executive order telling federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" rather than artificial intelligence. Zuckerberg called the accord "a starting point, not a final solution", according to The Decoder.
Semafor reported, citing sources, that the accord grew out of a conversation between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson, and that Huang helped build support. The paper has not seen the Semafor piece and cannot confirm that account. The Wall Street Journal reported, also citing sources, that executives questioned Dario Amodei privately about his public warnings on AI risk.
Critics quoted by The Decoder argue that voluntary commitments without legislation cannot be enforced, and that similar approaches have been tried before. No auditor has been named in the coverage the paper has read, and it is unclear how the ten-member oversight committee Trump proposed would work.