Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls

President Donald Trump and chief executives of the nation's biggest artificial intelligence firms have put their names to a voluntary set of safety standards, according to Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who spoke with reporters on Tuesday. The move comes as pressure grows for stronger limits on powerful AI systems, according to CBS News.

The signing followed a White House lunch attended by Elon Musk of SpaceX, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, and numerous other technology leaders. Johnson said the agreement concerns "super intelligence," the president's favored label for AI. He called it a joint commitment and a statement of principles under which the companies would voluntarily maintain "robust internal controls." Trump likened it to "a constitution, in a way." When asked whether it carries legal force, he answered, "I think it's morally binding," and said he sees "tremendous self-policing."

How the arrangement will function remains unclear. Zuckerberg told reporters the companies agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," covering internal evaluations as well as outside audits, with each company's board of directors independently reviewing what auditors find. Trump said the executives also talked about creating a 10-person committee to "watch over the enterprise," and that he intends to appoint an "AI czar" within three or four days.

Summarized by PolitiKool from CBS News’s reporting. Read the full story at CBS News →