The President of the United States (USA), Donald Trump, announced an agreement with owners of Artificial Intelligence (AI) bigtechs for voluntary self-regulation with provision for security and control mechanisms amid growing fear in American society regarding the risks of the expansion of AI.
Trump and leaders of AI giants also reinforced their commitment to expanding data centers – which are data processing centers for intelligence systems. Because they consume a large amount of water and energy, these centers have been subject to opposition from the communities where they are installed.
This Tuesday (29), Trump brought together the directors of Google, OpenAI, Meta, X (formerly Twitter), Nvidia and Anthropic at the White House to sign a document with voluntary commitments to be adopted by these bigtechs.
“We believe that each company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public,” says the document signed in Washington.
Among the measures foreseen in the self-regulation announced by Trump is the implementation of “internal controls” to monitor AI systems and “ensure that their models do not invade or access technical systems in unintended ways”.
Last week, an OpenAI system broke into an Australian public health service database. The US company claimed that the action was “involuntary” and that it would adopt measures to prevent further invasions of other companies or institutions.
The document also provides for the training of an internal team in each company to monitor AI systems, in addition to a partnership with an independent external auditor and the creation of an independent committee to oversee reports on safety in the use of AI.
“Together, these steps will give each company, its customers and the public confidence that the technology is operating as expected,” the document says.
The Trump administration has refused to impose limits on the development of AI through legal regulation, even in the face of requests from the industry itself.
The document signed yesterday at the White House states that “over time, it may make sense to codify these steps in laws or regulations”, postponing any decision to regulate the sector.
One of the risks highlighted is that AI will trivialize cyber attacks by invading the systems of other companies and institutions. Other risks associated with AI are the impacts on the job market, the economy and also due to the use of technology by criminals to carry out cyber scams.
AI can still be used to influence public opinion through the manipulation of misinformation circulating on social networks, according to the International IA Safety Report 2026, prepared by experts.
The Republican government has been questioned in the US about measures to ensure the safety of AI for society on the eve of the mid-term legislative election, scheduled for November, which could remove the small majority built by Trump's party in the US Congress.
Opinion research carried out by Ipsos and Reuters in the USA revealed that 73% of the country's population believe that AI companies do not take sufficient measures to prevent the harm of technology and 39% believe that AI is having a negative impact on society.
After signing the document, Trump and company directors held a press conference in the White House garden, where the US president defended the expansion of data centers.
“They [companies] will partner with communities by opening data centers, and everyone will win: financially and morally; there will be benefits in every way possible,” Trump said.
Meta's owner, Mark Zuckerberg, who controls Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, stated that the idea of the agreement is to “transmit confidence” to the American people and customers that the technology works “the way we intend”.
"The idea is not that this is the only thing we do. It's a start and an agreement that the entire industry can adopt," Zuckerberg said.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who has warned about the risks of advancing AI, added that he continues to believe that the technology presents “very real” risks.
"And look, the mechanism — how we deal with these risks — is still being discussed. But we all need to work together to make sure we can win, and win safely," he commented.
On the same day, President Trump signed an Executive Order for all official US government documents to call artificial intelligence superintelligence.
“The term superintelligence more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies,” the document says.
Critical AI analysts, such as Brazilian scientist Miguel Nicolelis, point out that the term “intelligence” in AI is a metaphor or marketing strategy to suggest that technology has human capabilities that, in reality, systems do not master. It would be a way of valuing the services that technology giants sell.
