# Frontier AI Leaders Sign White House Accord on Super Intelligence > [!map] Filed under [[news/welcome|News]] — current events in digestible form. Siblings: [[news/Newsom Signs Executive Order Advancing AI Kill Switch|Newsom Signs Executive Order Advancing AI Kill Switch]] · [[news/OpenAI Launches Standing Misalignment Reporting Framework|OpenAI Launches Standing Misalignment Reporting Framework]]. Full record: [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]]. On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, President [[wiki/Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] and Speaker Mike Johnson hosted the **East Room Super Intelligence Luncheon** at the White House, where frontier AI executives signed the **White House Accord on Superintelligence: A Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities**, a voluntary pact Trump called **"morally binding,"** and Trump signed the executive order **"Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,"** directing the executive branch to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI." The seating chart Trump posted listed nineteen executives: [[wiki/Dario Amodei|Dario Amodei]] of [[wiki/Anthropic|Anthropic]], Greg Brockman of [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]], Sundar Pichai of [[wiki/Google|Google]], Satya Nadella of [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]], Mark Zuckerberg of [[wiki/Meta|Meta]], [[wiki/Jensen Huang|Jensen Huang]] of [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]], [[wiki/Elon Musk|Elon Musk]], Jeff Bezos of [[wiki/Amazon|Amazon]], Alex Karp and Shyam Sankar of [[wiki/Palantir Technologies|Palantir]], Lisa Su of [[wiki/AMD|AMD]], Hock Tan of [[wiki/Broadcom Corporation|Broadcom]], Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron, Nikesh Arora of [[wiki/Palo Alto Networks|Palo Alto Networks]], Bill McDermott of [[wiki/ServiceNow|ServiceNow]], Brandon Daniels of Exiger, Brad Gerstner of Altimeter, Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks. Axios listed Vice President JD Vance, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross among the officials present. The lunch itself was closed to the press; the on-record remarks came at a news conference on the driveway outside the West Wing, where Trump stood with Johnson, Amodei, Musk, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg and Huang, the seven executives whose signatures appear beside Trump's on the one-page accord he posted to Truth Social at 5:24 p.m. The accord's full text has not been released. As Zuckerberg and the Associated Press described it, signatories commit to **four layers of control**: robust internal controls for training and deployment, an internal team for monitoring and resolution, an independent auditor, and an independent board committee that reviews the auditors' reports; AP quoted the document as saying "over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws and regulations." Trump said, "It's almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest and the biggest people in the world signed that," and "I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police." He floated a committee of "maybe 10 people" to "watch over the whole enterprise," said he would name an AI czar in "the next three or four days," and said the companies would answer local data-center opposition this way: "They're going to work to make the community happy. That might be supplying oil and gas. It might be supplying education, it may be helping teachers along financially, helping people along financially." Johnson said, "Safety and innovation are not mutually exclusive pursuits," and called the accord "a statement of standards, commitments that are voluntary on behalf of the industry." Amodei said, "I think the technology has very real risks. And, you know, the mechanism, how we address those risks is still under discussion," adding that "we can win and we can win safely." Pichai said the signatories are "bringing those well-known best practices to the development of superintelligence," and Zuckerberg said, "It is that this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to." From inside the room, Daniels told Fox News that "everyone around the table recognized that we all have a role to play in making sure that AI is as safe and as controlled and managed, while still being incredibly innovative." The accord places the federal answer to frontier-model risk in **voluntary industry commitments** eleven days after California's governor moved toward state-mandated auditors and a kill switch. It also caps a week in which the administration built the new vocabulary step by step: Trump told the United Nations on September 22 that US documents would switch to "the much more accurate term 'super' as opposed to artificial"; the White House fact sheet on Xi Jinping's state visit, dated September 25, announced a **U.S.-China Super Intelligence Dialogue** and a bilateral channel for "SI incidents," the same day the two leaders toured the Constitution at the National Archives; and Trump dined with Amodei on the night of September 27. Critics answered in advance. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren wrote on September 28 that "Voluntary measures and self-policing clearly are not working." Sam Altman, absent at OpenAI's DevDay, told CNBC the same afternoon, "We are pacing our progress, which includes sometimes not training a model." Four things come next. The accord's full text is due for release, Johnson said, with its enforcement mechanics still unstated. The proposed oversight committee and the AI czar remain unnamed. The executive order gives the President's science and technology adviser **60 days** to propose legislation defining Super Intelligence in statute, which would move the rename from executive usage into law. And the U.S.-China Super Intelligence Dialogue is scheduled to meet by November 2026, carrying the new term into the bilateral channel. ## Relationships - [[wiki/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] — **renaming**: the executive order makes "Super Intelligence" the executive branch's official term for what federal law defines as artificial intelligence. - [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]] — **framework**: Trump described the accord as "almost like a constitution"; the node tracks both directions a constitution for AI can run. - [[wiki/AI Moratorium|AI Moratorium]] — **contrast**: Johnson framed the voluntary accord as the alternative to moratoriums and "hyper-regulation." - [[wiki/China AI Superpower|China AI Superpower]] — **context**: the accord followed the U.S.-China Super Intelligence Dialogue announced during Xi Jinping's state visit. - [[wiki/Constitutional AI|Constitutional AI]] — **context**: company-level constitutions, including Anthropic's, predate the accord's constitutional framing. - [[news/Newsom Signs Executive Order Advancing AI Kill Switch|Newsom Signs Executive Order Advancing AI Kill Switch]] — **contrast**: California's mandated-auditor and kill-switch track against the federal voluntary track. - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] — **full record**: every attributed statement from the day, tagged by speaker and topic. - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Source Dossier|Super Intelligence Week Source Dossier]] — **source record**: the September 12–29 chronology behind the accord. - [[news/welcome|News]] — **indexed under**: section router for this entry. ## Related Articles - [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] — **transition framing**: safety language as the vocabulary of a managed handoff. - [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] — **full-stack race**: the build-out the accord is designed to leave unslowed. - [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] — **public veto**: the political pressure the data-center commitments are meant to answer. - [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] — **constitutional authorship**: who writes the rules for frontier intelligence. ## Sources - [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/) — "Trump says tech CEOs signed 'morally binding' document to self-regulate AI." - [Associated Press via WSB Radio](https://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/trump-vows-never/MFETVZ66R44DDE3EPT652O6YZU/) — "Trump vows to never 'stifle' AI as leading executives urge caution." - [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) — "Trump, Johnson to meet with top AI leaders at the White House" (live coverage). - [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-meeting-list-ceos-johnson) — attendee list for the White House AI meeting. - [NBC News via AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-host-summit-top-ai-100000000.html) — "After summit with tech titans, Trump calls for 'tremendous' self-regulation." - [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) — "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence" (executive order).