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Here’s the Accord, which Trump apparently described as a “tremendous” exercise in “self-policing”:

Reading the Accord between the lines

We agree not be regulated
We agree not to give the public a voice
Trust us

Also, what does the word “independent” really mean above? Subcontractors working for other companies that we (the big companies who signed) choose and hang out with and perhaps already do business with?

Finally, if I may ask, what happened to the Pacing everybody was talking about two weeks ago?

Surprise, surprise: Dario, Sam, and Elon all chickened out.

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Yesterday, the Trump administration and the leaders of America’s top AI companies met in Washington to discuss the future of AI.

At the meeting, President Trump also signed anExecutive Orderthat officially renamed AI as “Super Intelligence,” or SI.

They also agreed on “The White House Accord on Super Intelligence,”signedby Sundar Pichai (Google), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Elon Musk (xAI), and Jensen Huang (Nvidia).

The meeting was supposed to discuss the future of AI, includingAI safety and accountability measures, especially in light of recent developments showing that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies could not adequately govern their AI models.

However, the meeting’s real outcome was a “morally binding” White Houseendorsement of self-regulation, which will not make AI substantially safer or hold companies accountable for reckless practices.

Here is the full agreement with my highlights, followed by my comments:

“In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technologysafely and in a way that builds trustwith customers and the public.

This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technologybehaves as intendedand that any issues arepromptly identifiedand resolved. Therefore, in addition to any other precautions, we believe each company should implement the following four layers of controls and audits:

(1)Implementrobust internal controlsto monitor the capabilities andalignmentof its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems inunintended ways.

(2)Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection areoperating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.

(3)Partner with anindependent external auditoror evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended.

(4)Designate anindependent committeeof the board of directors to oversee and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.

Together, these steps will give each company, its customers, and the public confidence that the technology is operating as intended.

The participating companies will meet regularly toestablish standardsandbest practicesto improve the safety of their systems.

Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations. Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone, and each of our companies arecommitted to doing this.”

My comments:

The agreement is voluntary andnot legally binding. Trump called it “morally binding.” In practice, nothing happens if a company decides not to comply with it.
Thelanguage used is vague, and it is unclear what successful compliance means. Terms like “robust internal controls,” “alignment,” and “operating as intended” are undefined and lack measurable thresholds. Vague agreements are destined to be useless.
An “independent external auditor” isnot as independent as it seems. Companies can choose their evaluators; they pay them, and no official body oversees these evaluations. They are incentivized to choose evaluators aligned with their own goals.
An “independent committee of the board of directors” is still a committee within the company, withno real independencefrom the company’s ideology, plans, and strategy.
No transparency, no public oversight. The document says that auditors will assess controls and board committees will receive reports. What about the public? What if the evaluators and the board disagree? What if there are conflicts of interest or mistakes? We will never know (but we will still be subjected to the harms posed by their reckless practices).
The expression “behaves as intended” is effective whenanchored in external standards, concrete goals, and specific outcomes, usually set out by legally binding rules and frameworks. The company will define “intended behavior” as whatever fits its needs. It does not mean that its technology is acceptably safe.
The agreement says that participating companies will meet regularly to “establish standards and best practices.” So companies will define for themselves what counts as AI safety, risk mitigation, and accountability.This is essentially self-regulation, and companies, as private entities created to generate profit, will naturallyprioritize their own interests, not the interests of the public.
These companies compete against each other. If a company's evaluator says its AI model is too risky, they will ask for a second or third opinion until they get the desired outcome (being able to release the model). They have no incentive to put themselves in a position tosuffer economic losses. One way to change this incentive structure is through legally enacted rules that require all companies to comply with the same requirements and standards, with meaningful monetary penalties for noncompliance.
This agreementwill not materially change anything. It endorses self-regulatory practices that are vague, not legally binding, and ineffective at meaningfully improving AI safety or holding companies accountable. Incidents such as the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack would still have happened under this accord.

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White House Accord on Super Intelligence Draws Criticism

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