Trump to sign “morally binding” voluntary accord with top AI leaders

US President Donald Trump hosts top tech executives at the White House

for a strategy session on managing AI safety without federal mandates.

Activists meanwhile gather outside an OpenAI conference to demand the

regulation for the industry.

Speaking to reporters on the White House driveway after a lunch meeting with

top decision makers of the AI industry, US President Donald Trump says

he and the group signed a voluntary accord, calling it "a kind of a constitution,"

that will include internal and external reviews aimed at addressing Americans'

fears about the technology.

Trump says the group, an assembly of "who's who of that world"

which includes Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg,

"understands they have to self-police."

He says he will be forming

a 10-person committee from a pool of "the smartest people in the world" to

oversee the "morally binding" accord, which he says is what the world needs

rather than governmental guardrails.

Trump touts the achievements of industry "good actors," while seeking

to reassure reporters that law enforcement are on top of those intending to use

AI for harm.

They're finding solutions to problems that they've never thought even possible.

And they're coming up with medical solutions that are incredible.

A lot of other things, very positive. And a bad actor is gonna get caught.

And that's why we have the DOJ.

That's why have the FBI. That's way we have CIA.

Also present at the summit was CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei,

who had previously called for a slowdown to AI.

He acknowledges the good of AI while continuing to caution the need to "win" safely.

As the president has said, you know, whoever wins AI, wins.

But I think the technology has very real risks. And you know, the mechanism,

how we address those risks, is still under discussion.

We all need to work together to make sure that we

can win and we can win safely if we do this right. If we work with the

president and everyone here, we can win safe.

The administration is continuing its support for large data centres

while Trump signs an executive order instructing government agencies

to replace the use of the term "Artificial Intelligence" with

"Super Intelligence."

Meanwhile in San Francisco, activists gather outside an OpenAI

developer conference to demand the industry distance itself from the

Trump administration while seeking stronger regulation

a day after the company announced holding off the launch of

a model due to concerns raised by researchers.

The protest organiser says the technology is threatening

everything from their water to their jobs.