Trump announces 'White House Superintelligence Agreement' with tech company leaders

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance before journalists during a briefing attended by the heads of the six most important technology companies: Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Nvidia.

Trump announced that he and industry leaders had signed a document called the "White House Agreement on Superintelligence." As he emphasized, this is "something of a constitution" for the new generation of artificial intelligence, which from now on will officially be called "superintelligence". The change in terminology is expected to enter into force in all official documents in the US.

As Trump emphasized, the new terminology is intended to reflect the breakthrough nature of the technology and its growing impact on social life, the economy and security. The President assured that all meeting participants welcomed this change with enthusiasm.

Four layers of security and self-control of giants

The signed document is a declaration of good practices and self-regulation of companies developing the most advanced AI models. According to its provisions, each company undertakes to implement four layers of security controls:

Internal monitoring – constant control of the compliance of models with assumptions, including preventing the use of AI to hack into foreign systems.

Audit teams – establishment of internal groups of experts to regularly check the effectiveness of implemented security measures and eliminate possible threats.

Independent external audit – invitation to cooperation from external specialists who will supervise the development and implementation of AI systems.

Oversight committee – creation of an independent body composed of company management board members that will monitor all activities and receive safety reports.

The companies also committed to regular meetings during which they will establish common standards and share best practices. Importantly, they do not rule out that the adopted principles may be transformed into applicable law in the future.

Industry leaders about the new agreement

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the adopted document "is intended to give people confidence that the technology works in the desired way." He also said that Tuesday's meeting was "historic" and that "it is only the beginning."

Dario Amodei from Anthropica drew attention to the real risks associated with the development of AI, at the same time assuring that intensive work is underway on mechanisms to counteract the threats. In turn, Jensen Huang from Nvidia emphasized that "the development of technology goes hand in hand with the increase in its security" and he sees no contradiction in it.

Musk also cooled down concerns about the development of AI. The head of SpaceX and xAI admitted that technology will change the labor market, but assessed that the benefits include: in the medical field, "will outweigh the costs" and the most likely scenario is one "that is extremely beneficial and is the future we would like."

The agreement signed at the White House is based on companies' voluntary declarations and self-control. President Trump has made clear that he does not anticipate introducing additional state regulations at this stage.