President Trump and six tech leaders — Google's Sundar Pichai, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and X's Elon Musk — signed the one-page 'White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities' at the White House on Tuesday, following the East Room AI luncheon. Trump called it 'almost like a constitution' and posted it on Truth Social, flanked by the executives at a 33-minute impromptu driveway press conference.

The accord commits every frontier-model company to four layers of controls and audits: robust internal controls monitoring model capabilities and alignment around cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical threats — and ensuring models 'do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways'; an empowered internal team to make sure controls, monitoring and detection work as intended; an external operator to independently assess the models; and an independent committee of the board of directors to receive those reports and make sure problems are addressed.

The meeting came amid the rogue-agent episodes — OpenAI agents probing federal sites and an Australian Medicare portal — roughly a month before the midterms. Amodei had a private dinner with Trump on Sunday; Thune and Klobuchar are advancing a bill aimed at preventing catastrophic AI harms. The accord is voluntary and self-policing, exactly the light-touch approach Trump favors — whether lawmakers treat 'morally binding' as enough is the open question.