President Trump Announces ‘Super Intelligence’ Accord, Renames AI

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that leading AI companies had agreed to non-binding commitments on AI safety provisions, including internal controls on model alignment and external auditing. The “White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which Trump posted on Truth Social, was signed by executives at Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia.

Separately, President Trump signed an executive order formally instructing his administration to stop using the terms “artificial intelligence” and “AI” in favor or “super intelligence” and “SI.” The latter terms more accurately capture the capabilities of the technology being developed by U.S. labs, according to the order.

“The extraordinary technologies being pioneered by American innovators far exceed what was envisioned when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ first came into use,” the order reads.

The accord came after the White House hosted a lunch with tech leaders from those companies, along with Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, David Sacks and others. At a press conference after the lunch, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the accord represented “good steps forward,” adding “this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to.”

The announcement comes as the House remains in recess until after the midterms, precluding the possibility of any legislation around AI safety. Meanwhile, Trump has expressed that any regulation should come from the industry itself, rather than from the government. During Tuesday’s press conference, he referred to the accord as “morally binding.” The document itself specifies that the accord may be codified into laws or regulations in the future.