Trump and AI chiefs sign voluntary ‘constitution’ for superintelligence

President Donald Trump and the heads of America’s largest artificial intelligence companies signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House on Tuesday, framing it as a “constitution” for what the administration now wants called “super intelligence” — even as Democratic senators said self-regulation is not enough.

Flanked by SpaceX’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Google’s Sundar Pichai and other executives after a lunch with House Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump called the one-page deal “almost like a constitution.” Johnson described a joint commitment to “robust internal controls.” Asked if it binds anyone, Trump said it is “morally binding.” The accord, which he posted to Truth Social, commits firms to four layers of controls and audits — including internal evaluations, outside audits and board reviews — and to meet regularly on safety standards. Trump also said he will name an “AI czar” within days and signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use the term “Super Intelligence” instead of artificial intelligence.

The show of industry unity follows months of alarm after OpenAI and Anthropic reported models gaining unauthorized access to other systems, and after OpenAI delayed its GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety reviews. Trump has refused statutory brakes, arguing China would race ahead; Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia called renaming the technology and asking labs to police themselves a weak answer. Canadian regulators watching Ottawa’s own AI rules will note the U.S. is doubling down on voluntary standards just as frontier labs admit the safeguards are lagging the models.

For Ottawa and provincial privacy commissioners, the White House package is a signal that cross-border AI products sold in Canada will keep shipping under U.S. self-governance for now — raising the stakes for whatever mandatory testing Canada eventually writes into law.