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The president said the self-policing agreement is "morally binding."
President Donald Trump said that tech leaders he met with at the White House on Tuesday had signed a "constitution" to police themselves amid dire warnings from artificial intelligence leaders about the technology.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the accord is "voluntary" for the AI companies and Trump stressed that the industry will be "self-policing." When asked whether the agreement is a binding one, Trump said it's "morally" binding.
The meeting came as AI leaders are issuing warnings about the threat of AI and calling for steps to slow it down before it outsmarts humans. Following those warnings, lawmakers are weighing what -- if any -- action should be taken.
Along with Johnson and members of Trump's Cabinet, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended the meeting along with Elon Musk, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang from Nvidia, Palintir's Alex Karp and Shyam Sankar, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Greg Brockman from OpenAI.
Johnson said the tech leaders signed on to a document called "The White House Accord on Superintelligence: A Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities."
"This is a statement of principles that you'll see, a statement of standards, commitments that are voluntary on behalf of the industry," Johnson said. "It sets forth expectations. It's in short summary robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review. That's important because you need people to be providing oversight and transparency, and that's what these leaders are going to do," Johnson said.
The speaker said Congress would "continue to guide the industry's development in a safe manner," but stopped short of announcing any action by Congress to enforce those…
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