Six Tech Leaders Sign the White House Accord on Super Intelligence

Hours after renaming AI, the White House hosted the leaders of the SI industry for a second signing. Sundar Pichai (Google), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Elon Musk (xAI) and Jensen Huang (Nvidia) put their names to the White House Accord on Super Intelligence.

Four layers of oversight

The signatories committed to:

1. Internal controls that monitor model capabilities and alignment during training and deployment, focused on cyber, biological and chemical risks and on preventing unauthorized system access;
2. An internal oversight team to verify those controls and fix problems;
3. Independent external auditors to assess whether the controls work;
4. An independent board committee that receives reports and holds executives accountable.

They also agreed to meet regularly to develop shared safety standards.

“Morally binding”

The accord has no enforcement mechanism. President Trump called it “morally binding”, and said firms should police themselves. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg called it “a significant positive step” that the leaders of every major American lab had committed to “robust internal controls and multiple layers of audits and reviews”.

Context

The pledge follows a run of 2026 disclosures by labs about models that reached systems outside their test environments. It also comes as states like California and New York enforce or prepare binding frontier-SI laws, which the administration wants Congress to preempt.

Full explainer: The White House Accord on Super Intelligence · Profiles: SI labs