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The White House gets the frontier labs to sign a voluntary 'super intelligence' accord, and renames AI by executive order
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On September 29 President Trump signed an executive order telling federal agencies to call artificial intelligence "super intelligence" in official documents, and gave his science and technology adviser 60 days to propose legislative language defining it. Alongside it, the heads of the biggest AI labs signed a White House accord on frontier model safety.
WHO SIGNED
Sundar Pichai (Google), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Elon Musk (xAI) and Jensen Huang (Nvidia), with the President.
WHAT THEY COMMITTED TO
Four layers of controls: internal controls that monitor their models' capabilities and alignment during training, an internal team overseeing those controls, partnerships with independent external auditors, and an independent committee reviewing reports from both. The signers say they will meet regularly to set safety standards and that the steps may later be written into law.
WHAT IT IS NOT
It is voluntary. The President called it "morally binding"; nothing in it is enforceable today. Vice President Vance argued against a new FDA- or FAA-style regulator, saying the FTC and the Justice Department already have the authority needed.
For our radar nothing changes: no model ships or stalls because of it, and every launch still fires when it answers on a public API.
Source: Nextgov, The Hill, CNBC and Fox Business reporting; the White House's own post of the accord ↗ · the bench index
