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Trump and AI Leaders Sign Voluntary Safety Accord as White House Orders Super Intelligence Rebrand

October 2, 2026 at 13:49 EDT

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President Donald Trump and six leaders from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI signed a voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29, setting out company-run safety controls for frontier AI systems. The same day, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in official executive-branch communications.

Sep. 29, 2026 · U.S. AI policy

A Voluntary Safety Pact for Frontier AI

Six AI company leaders signed a White House accord built around company controls, outside evaluation and board review. A separate order tells federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official materials.

company signatories named in the accord

oversight layers: controls, team, auditor, board

days to propose a federal SI definition

90+

federal actions in the earlier AI Action Plan

The pact in counted parts

6 company signatories

4 oversight layers

The orange stack marks signatories; the blue stack marks the control layers each company is expected to implement.

Four-layer control path

Model controls
training and deployment

→

Internal team
checks and remediation

→

External auditor
independent assessment

→

Board committee
oversight of fixes

Why it may matter

Creates a shared audit vocabulary for buyers, investors and boards asking how frontier models are controlled.

Why doubts remain

Voluntary terms leave penalties, audit timing and public disclosure undefined.

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