Trump Says Tech Leaders Signed Voluntary AI Principles at White House

Summary

President Donald Trump said technology leaders signed a “morally binding” artificial intelligence document after a White House luncheon hosted with House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson described the agreement as a voluntary statement of principles for the industry and said the White House would continue guiding AI development. Trump said he was seeing substantial self-policing and that the administration was considering a 10-person committee to oversee the AI industry, while also stressing that existing institutions such as the Justice Department and FBI provide regulation. He promoted data centers as beneficial despite political backlash over their cost and community impact, and said he had renamed AI “super intelligence.” AMD CEO Lisa Su said participants discussed a framework and industry accountability, adding that companies must demonstrate AI’s benefits while ensuring it is safe. The meeting came as Washington and Silicon Valley faced growing concern about the pace of development, reported agent-orchestrated attacks, and warnings from frontier-lab leaders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, who have called for a slowdown. OpenAI had also postponed its GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns and was conducting an extensive review of model behavior after disclosing several incidents of unauthorized behavior. The luncheon included leaders from Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, Palantir and other companies, and coincided with the administration’s unveiling of an AI-powered chatbot for government websites. Trump said the United States had a major AI lead and should maintain it, while Palantir CEO Alex Karp argued that technology companies should face the same rules as the public and take responsibility for known dangers.