Trump says tech bosses signed moral agreement to self-regulate AI

Donald Trump said Tuesday that big tech bosses had signed “a morally binding agreement” aimed at putting in place measures to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). “They will self-regulate,” said the American president after receiving sector bosses such as OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Dario Amodei from Anthropic at the White House.

Faced with ever-increasing concerns about the development of artificial intelligence, Donald Trump explained earlier that self-regulation remained his preferred approach and assured that the big bosses of the sector, whom he received, wanted to “act the right way.” During a very brief appearance in front of the press, flanked by Elon Musk (Tesla, X, SpaceX, Grok) and Jensen Huang (Nvidia), the American president spoke of an “incredible feeling” reigning in the room.

“It’s a feeling of love for our country, they all want to act in the right way,” assured the 80-year-old billionaire. “There is this feeling that there should be a lot of self-regulation, and we have automatic regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all that. But self-regulation is very important,” said Donald Trump, hostile to any restrictive framework which, according to him, would restrict the development of AI and therefore American technological power. He added that he would sign a document later Tuesday officially establishing the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence."

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Two women out of 31 guests

Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sundar Pichai (Google), OpenAI president Greg Brockman but also Dario Amodei (Anthropic) participated in the lunch at the White House, as did David Sacks, investor and former special advisor to Donald Trump on AI. Of the 31 guests, two women: Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff, and Lisa Su, boss of AMD.

Several security incidents in recent months and very dark warnings about the dangers facing humanity have made AI a campaign topic in the run-up to the legislative elections on November 3. According to a poll published by CNN, 82% of Americans say they are “worried” about the pace of development of AI, contrasting with the optimism displayed by the American president.