Three takeaways from Trump's 'Super Intelligence' summit

President Donald Trump convened executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta and Google at the White House on Tuesday, and afterward said they had put their names to a "morally binding" pledge meant to shield the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence. The gathering came as some industry figures and experts urge stronger oversight and a slower pace of development. Under the pledge, which Trump posted online, each company answers for the safety of its own technology, adds safeguards, moves quickly to find and fix faults, and works with "independent auditors." Trump, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang all signed. Trump compared it to a constitution and said he would form a board to supervise AI safety, without naming members. He has previously dismissed worries about the technology's risks as a "hoax." The day before, OpenAI said it had pulled its GPT-6. 1 Astra model over safety concerns, according to BBC.

Trump also defended building more data centers, which have met resistance over power consumption and community effects and could complicate Republican prospects in the November midterms. A Marist Poll done with NPR and PBS News earlier this month put opposition among registered voters to local construction at 65%. Trump said the wealthy firms would make "massive contributions to communities." Huang proposed calling the facilities "super intelligence factories."

Separately, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use "SI" and "Super Intelligence" in official communications instead of artificial intelligence.

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