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Trump Releases Full Text of 'Morally Binding' AI Accord Photo: President Donald Trump, whose administration cast the one-page document as an AI accord. Portrait: Official White House portrait by Daniel Torok, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. For most of Tuesday, the loudest question about Donald Trump's AI pact was a simple one: what does it actually say? The president announced a "morally binding" agreement with the biggest names in artificial intelligence after a White House luncheon , posed with the executives outside the West Wing, and called the whole thing almost a constitution. But nobody had seen the document. Tuesday evening, that changed. Trump posted the one-page accord on Truth Social, and for the first time the public could read what six of the most powerful technology executives in the world actually put their names to. TechPulse USA covered the signing and Trump's vow to rename AI "super intelligence" when Trump announced...

Update, Sept. 30 Update, Sept. 30 — Two of this story's open questions were answered after publication. Trump released the accord's one-page text on Truth Social (Sept. 29): it urges four layers of control — independent external auditors, an independent board AI-oversight committee, internal training-and-deployment monitoring (cybersecurity, biosecurity, chemical threats), and an internal controls team — and was signed by Trump and the bosses of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, X and Nvidia (Reuters). The document says participating companies "will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices" and concedes "it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations." Separately, the 5 p.m. rename DID happen: the White House published a fact sheet for the executive order "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," directing all agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "artificial intell...