On September 29, 2026, at a White House luncheon, President Trump and the heads of six companies signed the “White House Accord on Super Intelligence”, subtitled a “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities”. The signatories were Sundar Pichai (Google), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Elon Musk (xAI) and Jensen Huang (Nvidia).
The one-page text commits each company to four layers of controls: robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models, covering cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical threats; an internal team empowered to make sure those controls work and to remediate problems; partnerships with independent external auditors to assess whether the controls are effective; and a designated independent committee of the board to oversee the work and its remediation. The companies also agree to meet regularly to set standards and best practices, and the text notes that some of these steps “may make sense to codify into laws or regulations” over time.
The accord was released alongside Executive Order 14434, which renamed AI “Super Intelligence” across the executive branch.
Why it matters: the pledge was signed by the heads of the leading US labs and the largest AI chip maker alongside the President, and it borrows its structure from corporate financial controls: internal control, internal audit, external audit, board audit committee. What it does not show: the accord is voluntary and sets no thresholds, penalties, reporting duties or named auditors. Whether any company changes its practice because of it, and who would check, is not stated in the text.