From Tom's Hardware: President Donald Trump, several Cabinet members, and House Speaker Mike Johnson sat down with key AI leaders for high-level discussions on AI, as recent incidents such as the publicized Hugging Face hack have brought forth issues about AI safety. The meeting resulted in a document titled “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,” which states that “every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely,” and was signed by Sundar Pichai (Alphabet), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Elon Musk (SpaceXAI), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), and Trump himself. According to CNN, the president argued that this was the best way to move forward with AI, which he dubbed “Super Intelligence,” as it balances progress with safety.
The pledge outlines four key points: (1) Implement robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways; (2) Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated; (3) Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended; and (4) Designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversee and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.
“I’m seeing tremendous self-policing, and they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump told reporters outside the West Wing. “These models are very complex and, again, I believe they’re going to be used for the good.” While this pledge has no law or regulatory pressure behind it, the president still called it “morally binding,” and that he believes that the AI companies can monitor themselves without the need for additional regulation.
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