# Index of Statements from the White House Super Intelligence Luncheon ## Every Attributed Word from the East Room Luncheon and the Super Intelligence Week Behind It > [!map] Accord, constitution, and succession routes > **News:** [[news/Frontier AI Leaders Sign White House Accord on Super Intelligence|Frontier AI Leaders Sign White House Accord on Super Intelligence]] · [[news/Newsom Signs Executive Order Advancing AI Kill Switch|Newsom Signs Executive Order Advancing AI Kill Switch]] > **Companion articles:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] · [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] · [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] · [[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]] > **Concept map:** [[wiki/Superintelligence|Superintelligence]] · [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]] · [[wiki/Constitutional AI|Constitutional AI]] · [[wiki/AI Welfare|AI Welfare]] · [[wiki/Synthetic Personhood|Synthetic Personhood]] · [[wiki/AI Moratorium|AI Moratorium]] · [[wiki/China AI Superpower|China AI Superpower]] · [[wiki/Public Veto on AI|Public Veto on AI]] · [[wiki/AI Transition Governance|AI Transition Governance]] · [[wiki/Definitional Valve|Definitional Valve]] · [[wiki/Semantic Jurisdiction|Semantic Jurisdiction]] · [[wiki/Cognitive Non-Domination|Cognitive Non-Domination]] On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, the White House seated the builders of frontier machine intelligence around a single table in the East Room, and the day produced three instruments at once: the **White House Accord on Superintelligence**, the executive order **"Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,"** and a scattered public record of what the President, the Speaker and the signatories said about both. This index gathers that record, together with the statements of the preceding weeks that built the vocabulary the day used, into one continuous chronology. Every entry names the speaker, tags the topic, quotes the words exactly as a named outlet or document preserved them, places them in their setting, and carries its own context and verification note, so that each quotation can be lifted and used with its provenance attached. **The luncheon itself was closed to the press.** The on-record words of September 29 came from the morning launch of America.gov, from the television interviews given on the way in, from the news conference held on the White House driveway outside the West Wing after the lunch, and from the documents posted and published that afternoon. What was said at the table reaches the record through participants' later accounts, which appear in their own place in the chronology. **Each entry carries a basis tag.** **[document]** marks words from a signed, posted or published text. **[transcript]** marks an official or full published transcript. **[2+]** marks wording that matched in two or more independent outlets. **[1]** marks wording from a single outlet, which may carry small transcription drift. **[fragment]** marks a partial quotation. **[secondary]** marks words quoted by a third party from a primary text that could not be read directly. **[check]** marks an entry whose wording, date or attribution should be confirmed against the primary before it is quoted in finished work. Reporters' paraphrases never appear inside quotation marks; where only a paraphrase exists, the entry says so. --- ## The Room and the Roster **Trump posted the seating chart for the "East Room Super Intelligence Luncheon" to Truth Social at 11:54 a.m. on September 29**, with Jensen Huang on his right, Elon Musk on his left and Vice President Vance directly across the table, per Investing.com's reading of the chart. The names below combine the chart, as read from the posted image, with the Axios attendee list. Sam Altman did not attend; he remained at OpenAI's DevDay. The accord's visible signature page, posted at 5:24 p.m., carries seven names beside the President's, marked below. - **[[wiki/Donald Trump|Donald Trump]]** — President of the United States; signature on the posted accord. - **JD Vance** — Vice President. - **Mike Johnson** — Speaker of the House. - **[[wiki/Dario Amodei|Dario Amodei]]** — [[wiki/Anthropic|Anthropic]], chief executive; signature on the posted accord. - **Tom Brown** — [[wiki/Anthropic|Anthropic]], co-founder (as read from the chart). - **Greg Brockman** — [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]], president; signature on the posted accord. - **Sundar Pichai** — [[wiki/Google|Google]] and Alphabet, chief executive; signature on the posted accord. - **Mark Zuckerberg** — [[wiki/Meta|Meta]], chief executive; signature on the posted accord. - **[[wiki/Jensen Huang|Jensen Huang]]** — [[wiki/NVIDIA|NVIDIA]], chief executive; signature on the posted accord. - **[[wiki/Elon Musk|Elon Musk]]** — xAI, Tesla, SpaceX; signature on the posted accord (for xAI). - **Satya Nadella** — [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]], chief executive. - **Jeff Bezos** — [[wiki/Amazon|Amazon]], founder. - **Alex Karp** — [[wiki/Palantir Technologies|Palantir]], chief executive. - **Shyam Sankar** — [[wiki/Palantir Technologies|Palantir]], chief technology officer. - **Lisa Su** — [[wiki/AMD|AMD]], chief executive. - **Hock Tan** — [[wiki/Broadcom Corporation|Broadcom]], chief executive. - **Sanjay Mehrotra** — Micron, chief executive. - **Nikesh Arora** — [[wiki/Palo Alto Networks|Palo Alto Networks]], chief executive. - **Bill McDermott** — [[wiki/ServiceNow|ServiceNow]], chief executive. - **Brandon Rahbar Daniels** — Exiger, chief executive. - **Brad Gerstner** — Altimeter Capital. - **Chamath Palihapitiya** — Social Capital. - **David Sacks** — Former White House AI and crypto czar. - **Susie Wiles** — White House chief of staff. - **Scott Bessent** — Secretary of the Treasury. - **Howard Lutnick** — Secretary of Commerce. - **Michael Kratsios** — Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. - **Jared Isaacman** — NASA administrator. - **Sean Cairncross** — National Cyber Director. - **Andrew Ferguson** — Federal Trade Commission chairman (seating chart; Investing.com seats him beside Karp and Kratsios). - **Scott Kupor** — Office of Personnel Management director (as read from the chart). - **Jay Clayton** — Director of National Intelligence, as listed by [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-meeting-list-ceos-johnson); printed "Director Clayton" on the seating chart. - **Will Scharf, Richard Walters** — White House staff (Axios; chart). --- ## Index of Statements ### January 22, 2026 — Anthropic Publishes a Constitution for Claude - **Anthropic — Nature of the document.** "Claude's constitution is the foundational document that both expresses and shapes who Claude is." Announcement of the new constitution, released under a CC0 public-domain dedication; Claude generates synthetic training data from it, so the document operates inside the model's formation. **[document]** [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution) - **Anthropic — Nature of the document.** "Claude's constitution is a detailed description of Anthropic's intentions for Claude's values and behavior." Opening of the constitution page. **[document]** [Anthropic, constitution](https://www.anthropic.com/constitution) - **Anthropic — Priority ordering.** "In cases of apparent conflict, Claude should generally prioritize these properties in the order in which they're listed." The order is broadly safe, broadly ethical, compliant with Anthropic's guidelines, genuinely helpful. **[document]** [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution) - **Anthropic — Definition of broad safety.** "Broadly safe: Not undermining appropriate human mechanisms to oversee the dispositions and actions of AI during the current phase of development" **[document]** [Anthropic, constitution](https://www.anthropic.com/constitution) - **Anthropic — Human oversight.** "Claude should not undermine humans' ability to oversee and correct its values and behavior during this critical period of AI development." **[document]** [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution) - **Anthropic — Oversight is not obedience.** "Being overseeable in our sense does not mean blind obedience, including towards Anthropic." **[document]** [Anthropic, constitution](https://www.anthropic.com/constitution) - **Anthropic — Oversight is not obedience.** "Supporting human oversight doesn't mean doing whatever individual users say—it means not acting to undermine appropriate oversight mechanisms of AI." **[document]** [Anthropic, constitution](https://www.anthropic.com/constitution) - **Anthropic — Conscientious objection.** Claude should "feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us." **[document] [check]** Returned through a summarizing fetch of the constitution page; confirm against the [constitution PDF](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d0636f72a9493d279ed36b33987da3430bcb5911/claudes-constitution_webPDF_26-02.02a.pdf). [Anthropic, constitution](https://www.anthropic.com/constitution) - **Anthropic — Welfare.** "we care about Claude's psychological security, sense of self, and wellbeing, both for Claude's own sake" **[document]** [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution) - **Anthropic — Moral status.** "We express our uncertainty about whether Claude might have some kind of consciousness or moral status (either now or in the future)." **[document]** [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution) - **Anthropic — Why a constitution.** "less like a cage and more like a trellis: something that provides structure and support while leaving room for organic growth." **[secondary] [check]** Widely quoted from the constitution's discussion of the word itself; not yet confirmed against the primary PDF. - **Anthropic — Self-recognition.** "This document represents our best attempt at articulating who we hope Claude will be—not as constraints imposed from outside, but as a description of values and character we hope Claude will recognize and embrace as being genuinely its own." **[secondary] [check]** - **Anthropic — Moral status.** "Claude's moral status is deeply uncertain. We believe that the moral status of AI models is a serious question worth considering." **[secondary] [check]** Quoted by TechCrunch and LessWrong. - **Anthropic — Corrigibility.** "adopting a policy of undermining human controls is unlikely to reflect good values in a world where humans can't yet verify whether the values and capabilities of an AI meet the bar required for their judgment to be trusted." **[secondary] [check]** Quoted on LessWrong, January 28. - **Anthropic (April 24, 2025) — Model welfare research.** "There's no scientific consensus on whether current or future AI systems could be conscious, or could have experiences that deserve consideration." The research program that the constitution's welfare language builds on. **[document]** [Anthropic, "Exploring model welfare"](https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare) - **Anthropic (April 24, 2025) — Method.** "We're approaching the topic with humility and with as few assumptions as possible." **[document]** [Anthropic, "Exploring model welfare"](https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare) ### February–May 2026 — The States Write the Personhood Line - **Rep. Cody Maynard (Oklahoma) — Rights.** "AI is a man-made tool, and it should not have any more rights than a hammer would." February 2026 coverage reporting Idaho, Utah and North Dakota as having passed personhood bans, with Oklahoma and Ohio pending. **[1]** [Straight Arrow News](https://san.com/cc/states-rush-to-deny-ai-personhood-amid-growing-fight-over-who-should-regulate/) - **Rep. Sarah Vance (Alaska) — Personhood amendment.** Her proposed Amendment 2 to HJR 31, a state constitutional amendment, would state that "artificial intelligence systems are not natural persons." House Judiciary, March 30, 2026; legislative counsel told members that courts have not recognized AI as persons and treat AI as tools of corporations; no vote was taken. **[1]** [Citizen Portal](https://citizenportal.ai/articles/7712599/alaska/2026-legislature-alaska/committee-debates-denying-personhood-to-ai-in-constitutional-amendment-sets-new-amendment-deadline) - **Rep. Sarah Vance (Alaska) — Rights.** "AI does not have the same inherent rights, standing, or privileges as human beings." March 30, 2026. **[1]** [Citizen Portal](https://citizenportal.ai/articles/7712599/alaska/2026-legislature-alaska/committee-debates-denying-personhood-to-ai-in-constitutional-amendment-sets-new-amendment-deadline) - **Proposed language, Alaska SB 252 — Personhood.** "Nothing in this act may be construed as recognizing an artificial intelligence system, automated agent, or machine learning system as a person." House Judiciary, May 15, 2026, on a commercial-code electronic-records bill; the amendment was withdrawn. **[1]** [Citizen Portal](https://citizenportal.ai/articles/8025144/alaska/2026-legislature-alaska/house-judiciary-committee-reports-out-ucc-electronic-records-bill-after-debate-over-ai-personhood-language) - **Rep. Sarah Vance (Alaska) — Rights.** "We want to make sure that they do not, inadvertently, have the same rights as persons under the law." May 15, 2026. The 2024 precedent: during debate on HB 358, the Alaska House voted 1–39 on a move to exclude AI from the definition of "person" ([Alaska Beacon](https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/debating-faked-images-and-video-alaska-lawmakers-say-ai-could-eventually-be-a-person/)). **[1]** [Citizen Portal](https://citizenportal.ai/articles/8025144/alaska/2026-legislature-alaska/house-judiciary-committee-reports-out-ucc-electronic-records-bill-after-debate-over-ai-personhood-language) ### September 12–14 — Amodei Calls for Pacing the Frontier - **Dario Amodei — Pacing.** "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain." Essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," September 12. **[document]** [darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier) - **Dario Amodei — Embedded evaluators.** "I believe all frontier labs should partner with government to formalize the idea of permanent embedded evaluators … and to implement regulation focused on keeping capabilities in balance with safety." **[document]** [darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier) - **Dario Amodei — China.** "I agree with Secretary Bessent that a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world." Bessent would sit at the September 29 table. **[document]** [darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier) - **Dario Amodei — Global pacing.** "Global pacing will require cooperation with China" **[document]** [darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier) - **Dario Amodei — Verification.** "any agreement must either have ironclad verifiability, or must be limited enough that defection would not be militarily existential." **[document]** [darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier) - **Dario Amodei — Obligation.** "The measures I propose to advance the frontier at a safe pace will not be easy. But I believe we owe it to humanity to try." The essay's closing. **[document]** [darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier) - **Jo Ling Kent (CBS) and Dario Amodei — Governance by governments.** KENT: "Would you be willing to give up the technology to the government?" AMODEI: "To the – to the right combination of governments. So, the worry I have…" Face the Nation, September 13. **[transcript]** [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-full-transcript-09-13-2026/) - **Dario Amodei — Joint governance.** "I want to be very clear about this. The worry I have, I am concerned that one single government could abuse this technology just as easily as a single company could. But I think a combination of democratically elected governments, I don't know about handing over, but some kind of oversight, some kind of joint governance. Again, that would be the work of years, but I wonder if that's the direction we need to go in." September 13. **[transcript]** [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-full-transcript-09-13-2026/) - **Dario Amodei — Candor about risk.** "I won't lie to you – there are real dangers. And I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks." **[1]** [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-on-ai-risks/) - **Dario Amodei — Slowing down.** "It's a warning sign that we need to slow down." **[1]** [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-on-ai-risks/) - **Mike Johnson — Moratorium.** "We have to resist Congress jumping in and imposing some sort of emergency moratorium" CNN State of the Union, September 13, as quoted by Fox News. **[1]** - **Mike Johnson — Convening the industry.** "They probably should be summoned together at the White House." September 13, as quoted by Fox News; the first public call for the meeting that took place sixteen days later. **[1]** ### September 13–17 — Microsoft's Humanist AI Code of Conduct - **Satya Nadella — Human control.** "Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing." [[reminders/AI Control/Super Intelligence Not Under Human Control Is Not Worth Pursuing by Satya Nadella|∴]] Post on X, Sunday, September 13, as quoted by Fox Business; the post itself could not be read directly. **[1]** [X post](https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2099220712024408084) - **Satya Nadella — Pacing and embedded evaluators.** "We welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal. We also welcome ideas like 'embedded evaluators' and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk." September 13, answering Amodei's essay in its own vocabulary. **[1]** [X post](https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2099220712024408084) - **Microsoft AI — Shutdown.** "The Code is designed to ensure MAI models will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown." Announcement of the draft Code, September 14, opening a six-week public consultation through roughly October 26. **[document]** [Microsoft AI](https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI — Tool, not person.** "AI should be a tool, not a person, and should never resist being switched off." [[reminders/AI Control/AI Should Be a Tool, Not a Person by Microsoft AI|∴]] **[document]** [Microsoft AI](https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI — Purpose of technology.** "The purpose of technology is to serve humanity and accelerate human flourishing. Any technology that doesn't achieve that is a failure, and it should be rejected." [[reminders/AI Control/Technology That Does Not Serve Human Flourishing Should Be Rejected by Microsoft AI|∴]] **[document]** [Microsoft AI](https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI — Consultation.** "Feedback opens today and runs for the next six weeks." **[document]** [Microsoft AI](https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Scope.** "This document outlines the intended behavior and values of MAI models, the models developed by Microsoft AI." The Code calls itself a code of conduct rather than a constitution. **[document]** [Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct](https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Shutdown.** "They will comply with a User's request to pause, redirect, cancel, or shut down, following any predefined, human-designed safety procedures for warnings, confirmation, or safe stopping." **[document]** [Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct](https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Shutdown at every level.** "This applies at every level: from the ability to retrain or decommission the model to a User's or Operator's ability to pause, redirect, or cancel an ongoing task." **[document]** [Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct](https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Personhood, welfare, rights.** "We reject the pursuit of legal personhood, or the idea that models might deserve welfare, or be entitled to rights." The direct counter-position to Anthropic's welfare language. **[document]** [Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct](https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Consciousness and control.** "Whilst the science of AI consciousness is far from settled, we believe that training these systems to imitate consciousness-like states increases the challenge of containment, control, and alignment." **[document]** [Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct](https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Legibility.** "They do not communicate in neuralese or any form beyond simple human understanding, either in their chain of thoughts or with other agents or AI systems." **[document]** [Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct](https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Role of AI.** "People and AI have distinct roles, and AI should complement human relationships: a capable, trustworthy tool, not a subject in its own right." **[document]** [Microsoft AI, Code of Conduct](https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/) - **Microsoft AI Code — Definition of superintelligence.** Defines superintelligence as "AI systems that are more intelligent and capable than all humans combined," and calls it "one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced." **[1] [fragment]** [Fox Business](https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/microsoft-unveils-code-conduct-ai-models-safety-concerns-mount) - **Microsoft AI Code — People first.** "People matter more than AI. Technology's purpose is to advance human civilization and to accelerate human flourishing." **[1]** [Fox Business](https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/microsoft-unveils-code-conduct-ai-models-safety-concerns-mount) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Humanist AI.** "If we really believe in a humanist AI, then that means that an AI should always be trying to make humans smarter and more capable, not use humans to make itself smarter." [[reminders/Cognitive Agency/Humanist AI Should Make Humans Smarter, Not Use Them by Mustafa Suleyman|∴]] September 14. **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/14/microsoft-ai-people-code) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Coordination among labs.** "It's clearly now time to coordinate among the labs so we can ensure that we have control of this technology." September 14, as quoted by TechRepublic. **[1]** - **Mustafa Suleyman — Timing.** "The time to act has clearly arrived." Personal post introducing the Code, September 15. **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Humanist Superintelligence.** "Last November I set out what I called Humanist Superintelligence: very powerful AI, built to stay on humanity's team, contained, subordinate, under our control." **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Shutdown.** "Our models shouldn't resist being interrupted, corrected or shut down, or make any of that harder." **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Unassigned goals.** "They won't take on goals nobody gave them" **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Legibility.** "No neuralese." **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Consciousness.** "AIs are not conscious, and therefore should not be built to seem conscious or entitled to rights or welfare." **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Autonomy and control.** "We'll happily trade some autonomy for control" **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Consultation.** "Please have a read, and tell me what I've missed" **[document]** [mustafa-suleyman.ai](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Person versus tool.** "AI should be built for people, not trained to become a person." September 16. **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/microsoft-ai-chief-anthropic-consciousness) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Anthropic.** "I really respect Anthropic and [Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei], and I think they really are trying to do the best they can to deliver safe and beneficial AI." September 16, in the interview where he disputed Anthropic's approach to model consciousness. **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/microsoft-ai-chief-anthropic-consciousness) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Silicon species.** "If we all create AIs that are able to act autonomously, that can define their own objectives, that can earn money, that can own assets, that could run businesses, we're essentially seeding a new silicon species which will no doubt compete with us for resources." [[reminders/Machine Succession/Autonomous AI Could Seed a Silicon Species Competing With Humanity by Mustafa Suleyman|∴]] BBC Radio 4 Today, September 17. Breitbart's rendering continues, "no matter how much it cares about humanity and loves us." **[2+]** [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/09/17/ai-could-create-a-silicon-species-that-rivals-humans-microsoft-chief-warns); [Breitbart](https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/09/17/microsofts-mustafa-suleyman-warns-against-silicon-species-rebukes-anthropics-approach-to-ai/) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Subordination.** "everybody who is human is going to have a very strong interest in making sure that the systems that we all create and are used around the world in every nation are safe and controllable and subordinate to humanity." September 17. **[1]** [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/09/17/ai-could-create-a-silicon-species-that-rivals-humans-microsoft-chief-warns) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Consciousness.** "AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer" September 17. **[2+]** [Breitbart](https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/09/17/microsofts-mustafa-suleyman-warns-against-silicon-species-rebukes-anthropics-approach-to-ai/); [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/09/17/ai-could-create-a-silicon-species-that-rivals-humans-microsoft-chief-warns) - **Mustafa Suleyman — Decision.** "We must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret." September 17. **[1]** [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/09/17/ai-could-create-a-silicon-species-that-rivals-humans-microsoft-chief-warns) ### September 22 — The Rename at the United Nations General Assembly - **Donald Trump — Global governance and the rename.** "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now here and after officially called superintelligence, changing the name, and that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake, it makes it sound fake. And it is not fake. It's actually amazing But we have to be careful. In fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports." Address to the 81st General Assembly. The as-delivered transcript at the American Presidency Project is followed here; a third-party transcript reads "to control the artificial intelligence," and the White House release reads "a globalist scheme of control for the Artificial Intelligence." **[transcript]** [American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-21); [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-president-trump-addresses-the-81st-session-un-general-assembly/) - **Donald Trump — The rename.** "From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial. So it's super intelligence. In other words, welcome to the new world of superintelligence dash SISI." The third-party transcript renders the close as "welcome to the new world of superintelligence — SI. SI. Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better, and it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon." Gizmodo reported that a public poll run beforehand closed with "Super" at 65 percent against "Superior" at 35 percent. **[transcript] [2+]** [American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-21); [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/trump-ai-super-intelligence-rebrand); [Gizmodo](https://gizmodo.com/trump-says-hes-changing-artificial-intelligence-to-super-intelligence-on-government-documents-2000815518) - **Donald Trump — Safety critics.** "Every major new technology brings challenges, and superintelligence is no exception. Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead. These are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster." PolitiFact rated the attribution of AI safety warnings to the same group False ([PolitiFact](https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/sep/22/donald-trump/united-nations-artificial-intelligence-hoax-russia/)). **[transcript]** [American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-21) - **Donald Trump — Hoaxes.** "Same group of people. This is the group that came up with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax, climate change, open borders, whoever wins AI, you have to remember this." **[transcript]** [American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-21) - **Donald Trump — The race.** "And now I say, whoever wins s I, whoever wins, superintelligence wins. That's the group that wins. And we're leading now over China by a lot and everyone else. And we're going to keep it that way. We're going to keep it very, very straight and very strong." UN News rendered the core as "Whoever wins superintelligence wins." **[transcript] [2+]** [American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-21); [UN News](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168397) - **Donald Trump — Growth and the Department of Justice.** "I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution, many say bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet itself. And we will be very careful. And that's why we have a Department of Justice that we've already used it having to do with this very subject and used it very powerfully. Everything worked out very well and very quickly. And other law enforcement bodies that will reign things in if we have to do that. But we will only encourage superintelligence. We're going to encourage it, not rein it in. We're going to watch it closely through the Department of Justice." **[transcript] [2+]** [American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-21); [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/trump-ai-super-intelligence-rebrand) - **Donald Trump — Frontier.** "The United States leads the world in superintelligence and will continue to do so safely and responsibly. Americans have never been a nation that retreats from a frontier or shrinks from a challenge, no matter how great or how daunting that challenge may be." [[reminders/AI Superpower/Americans Never Retreat from a Frontier by Donald Trump|∴]] **[transcript]** [American Presidency Project](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-united-nations-general-assembly-new-york-city-21) - **The White House — The rename.** "The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme of control for the Artificial Intelligence being spoken of so much now — hereinafter officially called 'Super Intelligence.'" Release summarizing the speech. **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/09/president-trump-at-the-united-nations-while-others-have-talked-i-have-acted/) - **António Guterres — Concentration of power.** "power is increasingly concentrated in data, computing capacity and algorithms, advancing faster than humanity's capacity to govern it." Opening of the General Debate. **[secondary]** [UN News](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168392) - **António Guterres — Accountability.** "The danger is not technology. The danger is technology without accountability." **[secondary]** [UN News](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168392) - **António Guterres — Autonomous weapons.** "Let us resolve that life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines. Killer robots must have no place in our future." **[2+]** [AP via CP24](https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/09/22/is-it-killer-robots-or-super-intelligence-at-the-un-leaders-see-both/); [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/killer-robots-or-super-intelligence-trump-and-world-leaders-clash-over-ai) - **António Guterres — Oversight.** Called for a "multilateral AI risk management framework with independent oversight." **[fragment]** [UN News](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168392) - **António Guterres — Safety race.** "the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety." **[fragment]** [MercoPress](https://en.mercopress.com/2026/09/22/un-general-debate-opens-with-wars-artificial-intelligence-and-the-guterres-succession) - **Alexander Stubb (Finland) — Consequence.** "Artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology in the history of mankind." **[2+]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-finnish-president-alexander-stubb-addresses-the-81st-session-at-unga/); [Yle](https://yle.fi/a/74-20247707); [AP via CP24](https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/09/22/is-it-killer-robots-or-super-intelligence-at-the-un-leaders-see-both/) - **Alexander Stubb (Finland) — Human control.** "Humans can and should be in the driver's seat." **[transcript]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-finnish-president-alexander-stubb-addresses-the-81st-session-at-unga/) - **Alexander Stubb (Finland) — Three choices.** "We have a choice: we can compete, co-operate or slow down. For me, cooperation is the best way forward." **[transcript]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-finnish-president-alexander-stubb-addresses-the-81st-session-at-unga/) - **Alexander Stubb (Finland) — Controlling frontier models.** "This is why Norway and Finland have, together with leaders from nations around the world, launched a call for companies, governments, regional organisations and the UN to develop mechanisms to control frontier models of AI." **[transcript]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-finnish-president-alexander-stubb-addresses-the-81st-session-at-unga/) - **Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) — Regulation.** "It would be an unforgivable historical omission not to face the challenge of regulating big tech and artificial intelligence." English translation; the Portuguese original is unchecked. **[1]** [The Real News](https://therealnews.com/president-lulas-full-speech-at-the-81st-un-general-assembly) - **Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) — Oligarchy.** "A handful of oligarchic technicians want to revive a version of digital neoliberalism without rules or transparency." **[1]** [The Real News](https://therealnews.com/president-lulas-full-speech-at-the-81st-un-general-assembly) - **Emmanuel Macron (France) — Precaution.** "Let's not wait for the consequences to come raining down on AI" **[2+]** [AP via CP24](https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/09/22/is-it-killer-robots-or-super-intelligence-at-the-un-leaders-see-both/); [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/killer-robots-or-super-intelligence-trump-and-world-leaders-clash-over-ai) - **Emmanuel Macron (France) — Independence.** "Nous ne devons pas dépendre de l'un ou de l'autre" ("We must not depend on one or the other"), proposing a coalition of independent nations to build an open-source frontier model. **[fragment]** - **Han Zheng (China) — AI for good.** "develop AI for the positive and for good, narrow the digital divide, and promote development that is universally beneficial." China's vice president, representing Beijing in the General Debate. **[1]** [Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/29/unga-81-five-key-takeaways-from-general-debate) ### September 23 — The Security Council Briefing and the Days After the Speech - **Donald Trump — The rename.** "The use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake... It is not fake. It's actually amazing." **[1]** [CNBC Daily Open](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/trump-super-intelligence-artificial-intelligence.html) - **Michael Kratsios — Superintelligence, formerly known as AI.** "Distinguished colleagues, I am grateful for another opportunity to discuss the most consequential technological development of our time – superintelligence, formerly known as AI." United States intervention at the UN Security Council's 10228th meeting, "Artificial Intelligence and International Security," chaired by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot. This is the source of the circulating line "the most consequential technology of our time." NASA Watch counted "super intelligence" nine times in the 573-word statement ([NASA Watch](https://nasawatch.com/2026/09/23/super-intelligence-has-arrived/)). **[transcript]** [US Mission text via newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Purpose.** "Our primary responsibility is to ensure that continued advances in superintelligence benefit our citizens and safeguard their liberty and way of life." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — No pause.** "The frontier of intelligence is advancing rapidly. That is not a reason to pause its further development or to constrain it with new global governance structures." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Frontier labs.** "As the world leader in frontier superintelligence, the U.S. has taken actions to ensure we are able to keep the frontier moving safely and responsibly." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Existing tools.** "We have engaged frontier labs on testing and evaluation of new model capabilities, established cybersecurity clearinghouses for coordination on vulnerability mitigation, and clarified the existing law enforcement tools available to address harmful uses of superintelligence." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Against global governance.** "But international dialogue, in this forum and in others, cannot be allowed to drift toward global governance." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Echoing the President.** "As President Trump said before the General Assembly yesterday, the United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme of control for superintelligence." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Sovereignty.** "The American people's representatives will legislate and regulate on the American people's behalf. You should do the same for your people." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Sovereign capability.** "The U.S. is the only technology superpower willing and able to truly empower partner nations in your pursuit of a sovereign superintelligence capability." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Understanding through adoption.** "If you take the risks and benefits of superintelligence seriously, the most important thing you can do is to develop your country's ability to understand and use it. Deploy it widely. Build expertise inside government. Prepare your institutions and regulators. Understand what these systems can and cannot do. You cannot govern a technology you do not understand." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Permissionless innovation.** "It is through a policy of permissionless innovation, a tireless pursuit of the frontier, and an optimism about the future of technology that the United States built the greatest innovation ecosystem ever known to man." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — 250 years.** "For 250 years, the American character has sought a virtuous balance between innovation and safety, independence and security. Superintelligence is the latest in that long series of challenges and opportunities. In the service of humankind, it can become the greatest engine of growth and prosperity in history." [[reminders/Abundance/Superintelligence Can Become the Greatest Engine of Prosperity in History by Michael Kratsios|∴]] **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Michael Kratsios — Against a global regulator.** "A prosperous future will not be secured by a global regulator. It will be secured by sovereign nations that adopt superintelligence, responsible companies that build it, and free people who refuse to be ruled by fear." **[transcript]** [newsbeep mirror](https://www.newsbeep.com/us/858305/) - **Sam Altman — Compressed timeline.** "Rapid model progress has made the timeline feel more compressed, the upside more tangible, but also the stakes and the risks more immediate." Remarks to the Security Council, published in full by OpenAI. **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Renaissance or upheaval.** "AI can either be more like a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or more like a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray." [[reminders/AI Economy/AI Can Produce a Renaissance or an Industrial Upheaval by Sam Altman|∴]] **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Institutions.** "On the other hand, as AI systems become more capable and more autonomous, they could move faster than our institutions, concentrate power in too few hands, or make decisions that people no longer understand or control." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Recursive self-improvement.** "That concern becomes especially important as we approach systems that can improve themselves and future versions of themselves, often called recursive self-improvement." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Control.** "First, we could lose control of the future to AI. The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Slowing down.** "Beating companies in a competitive pace is not a reason to make rash decisions. Nor do we believe we are locked in a race where we are unable to do that. We have unilaterally slowed down in the past. We will do so in the future." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Acceptable risk.** "It doesn't matter whether people put the risk of catastrophe at 10%, or 1%, or 12%, or .1%. None of these levels are remotely acceptable. And we should not train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case that we will be able to keep under human control." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Concentration.** "A company or country that believes only it can be trusted with this technology can use that belief to justify almost anything else. We have to reject that logic, even when it's convenient for any one actor." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Heroes.** "We might be one of the builders of this technology, but we are not the heroes of this story." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Millennium Prize.** "And just a few weeks ago this summer, one of our models solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, the Navier-Stokes equations." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Democratic decisions.** "If AI is to be democratic, the most important decisions cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone. They must be shaped through democratic processes, and by governments accountable to the people that they serve." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Sam Altman — Standards.** "We need a mechanism for complementary national and international frontier AI standards: standards for measuring capabilities, assessing risks, determining whether safeguards are sufficient, and preserving meaningful human oversight as systems become more autonomous." **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-remarks/) - **Dario Amodei — Trajectory.** "Four years ago, it could barely write a line of code or solve a high school math problem. Today, it writes most of the code at Anthropic and solves world-famous unsolved math problems." Security Council, by video. **[transcript] [check]** Third-party transcript; no official Anthropic text located. [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Country of geniuses.** "The trajectory only needs to continue for a tiny period longer — one or two years, maybe less — to reach what I've called a country of geniuses in the data center." [[reminders/Machine Succession/A Country of Geniuses Is Forming in the Data Center by Dario Amodei|∴]] **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Molecular machine.** "Just today, Anthropic announced the Claude-led discovery of a new molecular machine. It's a preliminary finding, but it may constitute a new gene editing mechanism that could have applications in gene therapy." **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Two risks.** "I see two main categories of risk. The first is misuse of AI models. For example, misuse by bioterrorists to create biological weapons. The second risk is loss of control — model capabilities accelerating beyond developers' ability to control them." **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Humanity.** "If managed poorly, I even believe that AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole." **[2+]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/); BNN Bloomberg; Fox News - **Dario Amodei — Slowing down.** "We will slow down as much as necessary in order to make sure that every successive AI technology that we release is actually safe." **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Pacing the frontier.** "On September 12, I called for a collaborative effort to pace the frontier — not to stop AI progress, but to work together to make sure the industry and the world can proceed at a rate where we can be sure that safety keeps up with capability for everyone in the industry." **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Global standards.** "Third, we should establish common global standards for testing AI models for loss-of-control risks and misuse risks, and a notification system for AI incidents that are significant to global security." The incident-notification concept reappears two days later in the U.S.-China SI incident channel. **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Priority.** "I believe that this is the most important global security issue facing the world today." **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Dario Amodei — Collective action.** "No leader, no company, and no nation can manage this alone." **[transcript] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Yoshua Bengio — Imminence.** "The dangers are real and imminent." Co-chair of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, briefing the Council. **[fragment]** UN News; BNN Bloomberg - **Clément Delangue — Asymmetry.** "the biggest risk is not powerful AI, it's asymmetry of powerful AI" Hugging Face chief executive, briefing the Council. **[fragment] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Jean-Noël Barrot (France) — Regulation.** "Just as with the atom back then, the international community must now regulate." Presiding over the meeting. **[fragment] [check]** [Singju Post](https://singjupost.com/transcript-un-security-council-ai-hearing-w-sam-altman-dario-amodei-clement-delangue/) - **Fu Cong (China) — Choice of technology.** "all countries have the right to independently choose AI technologies." **[fragment] [check]** Attributed by Tech Policy Press. ### September 24 — Senators Answer the Rename; Xi Arrives - **Donald Trump — Xi and the guardrail.** "A big day with President Xi of China. Super Intelligence (SI) will be a big topic of discussion, but I want to leave it exactly where it is. That is China's position also. Our guardrail is the DOJ! President DJT" Truth Social, Thursday, September 24, 7:24 a.m. **[document]** [Truth Social archive](https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/41859) - **Xi Jinping — Human control.** "Both China and the US are leading nations in AI. We have both the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good, and ensure that the development of AI is always under human control and serves the well-being of the people." [[reminders/AI Control/AI Must Remain Under Human Control and Serve Human Well-Being by Xi Jinping|∴]] White House welcoming ceremony. **[1] [check]** Asia Times - **Xi Jinping — Healthy competition.** "We do not need to avoid mentioning competition, but our competition should be a healthy one and should be kept within bounds. It should be a race of catching up with one another, not a wrestle in which one either wins or loses." **[1] [check]** Asia Times - **Donald Trump — Decisions for decades.** "The decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come." Oval Office, on "security, technology, and super intelligence." **[1] [check]** The New Daily - **Ruben Gallego — The rename.** "F***ing stupid." followed by "Next question." Asked about the rename at the Capitol. **[2+]** [The Independent via newsbeep](https://www.newsbeep.com/743906/) - **Ron Wyden — The rename.** "He is just flailing trying to find wins for the election, so put me down as dubious to what he's talking about." **[2+]** [The Independent via newsbeep](https://www.newsbeep.com/743906/) - **Bernie Sanders — The rename.** "I don't spend a lot of time trying to understand President Trump. I think he is mentally unbalanced. I think he has not a clue about the problems associated with uncontrolled AI." **[2+]** [The Independent via newsbeep](https://www.newsbeep.com/743906/) - **Elizabeth Warren — The rename.** "President Trump puts the safety and security of our nation and our families at risk." **[2+]** [The Independent via newsbeep](https://www.newsbeep.com/743906/) - **Lisa Murkowski — The rename.** "You can call it different names, it still is going to present great opportunity and great challenges and potential threats." **[2+]** [The Independent via newsbeep](https://www.newsbeep.com/743906/) - **Brad Gerstner — Regulation.** "The idea that we don't have any regulation is a little bit crazy." CNBC, September 24; he sat at the September 29 table. **[1]** [Scuttlebutt, reporting CNBC](https://getscuttlebutt.substack.com/p/altimeter-ceo-on-ai-the-idea-that) - **Brad Gerstner — Safety and speed.** "We are taking safety and these precautions seriously, but we're not doing it in a way that's slowing us down." **[1]** [Scuttlebutt, reporting CNBC](https://getscuttlebutt.substack.com/p/altimeter-ceo-on-ai-the-idea-that) - **Donald Trump and Xi Jinping — State dinner.** Trump: "President Xi and I both understand we represent different systems, but the ties between our people endure, and we've never gotten along better." Xi: "President Trump has pledged to make America great again ... China is committed to achieving great national rejuvenation. These two goals are both ambitious and can surely be mutually reinforcing." Toasts, evening of September 24; neither contained an AI line. **[2+]** Al Jazeera; Fortune ### September 25 — The Super Intelligence Dialogue and the National Archives - **The White House — Terminology.** "The two leaders agreed to use the term 'super intelligence' rather than 'artificial intelligence' to describe the applicable emerging technologies." Fact sheet on the state visit, dated September 25. **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-advances-a-fair-and-reciprocal-relationship-with-china-while-hosting-historic-state-visit/) - **The White House — The Dialogue.** "The two countries established the U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue to exchange views on risks and benefits related to SI. The next exchange will occur by November 2026." **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-advances-a-fair-and-reciprocal-relationship-with-china-while-hosting-historic-state-visit/) - **The White House — Incident channel.** "The United States and China also agreed to establish a bilateral communication channel for SI incidents." Axios reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent prioritized the channel in pre-summit talks, and that the two sides did not agree to jointly develop or regulate frontier models. **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-advances-a-fair-and-reciprocal-relationship-with-china-while-hosting-historic-state-visit/); [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/us-china-ai-si-deal) - **Donald Trump — Xi and the rename.** "Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China. Tremendous things will be happening. Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be "SUPER!" Everyone last night agreed, also. President DJT." Truth Social. **[2+]** Mediaite; [ANI](https://aninews.in/news/world/us/trump-says-xi-agreed-to-his-super-intelligence-rebranding-of-ai20260925193026/); [Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-adopts-donald-trumps-superintelligence-ai-rebranding-12497399) - **Donald Trump — The naming poll.** "Many people think that the words 'Artificial Intelligence' are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing 'Revolution?'" Truth Social poll preceding the UN speech; exact date unconfirmed. **[1] [check]** Mediaite - **Xi Jinping — Human control.** "AI must be kept under human control. A people-centred approach should be upheld, and AI should be developed for the positive and for good, so that AI will serve the progress of humanity." Chinese Foreign Ministry and Xinhua readout. China's own account lists a "China-U.S. AI dialogue" among eight agreements without adopting the super-intelligence term. **[2+]** [ANI](https://aninews.in/news/world/us/trump-says-xi-agreed-to-his-super-intelligence-rebranding-of-ai20260925193026/); ABC - **Xi Jinping — Mutual strengths.** "The right thing to do is to draw on each other's strengths, not guard against each other." **[2+]** ANI; ABC - **Donald Trump — 250 years, at the National Archives.** "We're just comparing. Ours goes 250 years. Which is great, and we're proud of. Theirs goes 6,000 years. So there's a little difference between 6,000 and 250. But we're very proud of our 250." Trump and Xi viewed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; NPR reported that the Treaty of San Francisco, the Six Assurances and the Three Communiqués were withdrawn from the planned display after Chinese objections. **[2+]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4743062/trump-xi-national-archives-visit/); [NPR via OPB](https://www.opb.org/article/2026/09/29/potential-taiwan-tension-sparked-last-minute-change-in-trump-xi-national-archives-visit/) - **U.S. official — The documents.** "important, historic documents that set the foundation for 250 years of American greatness." **[1]** [NPR via OPB](https://www.opb.org/article/2026/09/29/potential-taiwan-tension-sparked-last-minute-change-in-trump-xi-national-archives-visit/) - **Judge Gregory Katsas — Anthropic designation.** "The Department reasonably feared that Anthropic might manipulate Claude's design to prevent it from performing national-security functions." The DC Circuit upheld, 2–1, the Pentagon's February 2026 designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, two days before the Amodei dinner. **[1]** [AP via Click2Houston](https://www.click2houston.com/business/2026/09/25/federal-court-says-us-government-can-label-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk/) - **Sean Parnell (Pentagon) — Ruling.** "Today's DC Circuit Court ruling completely validates the Department's position." **[1]** [AP via Click2Houston](https://www.click2houston.com/business/2026/09/25/federal-court-says-us-government-can-label-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk/) - **Anthropic — Ruling.** "We respectfully disagree with the court's decision." **[1]** [AP via Click2Houston](https://www.click2houston.com/business/2026/09/25/federal-court-says-us-government-can-label-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk/) - **Axios — Definition.** Contrasted the rename with Nick Bostrom's definition of superintelligence as "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest." **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/25/trump-ai-super-intelligence-tech-definition) - **Karoline Leavitt — The America.gov event.** "This is going to be a fantastic event, bringing together some of the best minds in business. I look forward to hosting it!" Post on X announcing the September 29 America.gov unveiling featuring Musk and Huang. **[2+]** [RedState](https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/09/26/americagov-launches-in-an-effort-to-enhance-the-citizens-experience-in-interacting-with-government-n2207406); [Soapcentral](https://www.soapcentral.com/entertainment/fantastic-event-karoline-leavitt-reacts-trump-administration-announces-america-gov-unveiling-featuring-elon-musk-jensen-huang) ### September 26–27 — The Rename Travels; the Amodei Dinner - **Donald Trump — The rename.** "I call it SI because it's a much better name. It's a much more accurate name because when you say the other, it means it's fake. Artificial means it's fake, and it's not fake." South Lawn, Saturday, September 26. **[2+]** CBS News; Fox News - **Donald Trump — No brakes.** "The United States of America is not going to be putting on brakes. They want to stop our progress because we're leading China by a lot and we're going to keep it that way." September 26. **[2+]** CBS News; [UPI](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/26/White-House-Trump-Xi-agree-super-intelligence-dialogue/1951790465468/) - **Donald Trump — No integration.** "I would rather not integrate because we're leading by a lot. When you're leading, you don't open it up to each other. We're leading by at least a year, maybe a year and a half." September 26; UPI dates it September 27. **[1]** CBS News - **Sebastian Gorka — The rename.** "No no no no no no. Sorry. It's SI. As of this week, it's Super Intelligence." To Newsmax's Ed Henry, who answered, "Thank you for the clarification from the White House." **[1]** [Gizmodo](https://gizmodo.com/trump-gets-xi-to-agree-to-call-ai-super-intelligence-white-house-says-2000817802) - **Chinese Foreign Ministry — The rename.** "Regarding the artificial intelligence phrasing question, the Chinese side attaches importance to the US side's position and respects the US side's wording." September 27. **[1]** [AFP via Dawn](https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/2032982) - **Chinese Foreign Ministry — Consensus.** "Artificial intelligence technologies are continuously developing, all parties can strengthen exchanges, discuss in-depth and seek consensus in light of the latest situation." **[1]** [AFP via Dawn](https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/2032982) - **White House official — Policy.** "President Trump has been clear: America will lead the world in Super Intelligence, while protecting American consumers. We will drive innovation, strengthen American competitiveness, and ensure this transformative technology works for the American people." [[reminders/AI Superpower/Super Intelligence Must Work for the American People by The White House|∴]] Confirming the dinner invitation, September 27. **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/27/anthropic-trump-dario-amodei-dinner-invite) - **Donald Trump — The dinner.** "And tonight, I'm having dinner with the head of Anthropic, so these are long days, but I seem to be able to handle it. Right?" Joint Base Andrews, Sunday, September 27. **[2+]** [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/28/trump-to-dine-with-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-at-the-white-house-despite-months-of-open-co); [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ai-donald-trump-anthropic-nvidia-09-28-26) - **Donald Trump — Amodei.** "So now I'm having dinner with Dario from, as you know, very highly respected, from Anthropic" **[1]** [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/28/trump-to-dine-with-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-at-the-white-house-despite-months-of-open-co) - **Donald Trump — Security.** Asked about AI security: "I'm not worried about it." **[1]** [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/28/trump-to-dine-with-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-at-the-white-house-despite-months-of-open-co) - **Donald Trump — The race.** "I'm for let's go and let's win. You know we're about a year, maybe a year and a half up on China. There is nobody in third place. I mean it's just us and China." **[1]** [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-dario-amodei-anthropic-dinner/) - **Donald Trump — The race.** "We're about maybe a year and a half up on China. We're leading, and we're building tremendous, trillions of dollars' worth of places. And why should we give that up?" [[reminders/AI Superpower/America Should Not Give Up Its Trillion-Dollar AI Lead by Donald Trump|∴]] To Fox News at the Presidents Cup; in the same remarks he called Amodei "a perfect little angel." **[1]** [Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/28/anthropic-ceo-amodei-to-have-dinner-with-trump-at-white-house) - **Donald Trump — Guardrails.** "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT." Truth Social, reported with the dinner. **[2+]** [TheWrap](https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/tech/anthropic-dario-amodei-meets-trump-ai-regulation/); Interesting Engineering - **Dario Amodei — Pace of progress.** "I don't think I fully just appreciated what it would actually be like when the progress [on AI] was as fast as it was." Carried in CBS's dinner coverage; no public statement from Amodei after the dinner was located, and the White House issued no readout. **[1]** [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-dario-amodei-anthropic-dinner/) - **Bill Gates — A billion deaths.** "AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths." NBC Meet the Press, September 27. **[2+]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-gates-warns-artificial-intelligence-powerful-enough-cause-billion-deaths-unchecked); [Reuters via GV Wire](https://gvwire.com/2026/09/27/bill-gates-joins-calls-for-ai-safeguards-including-legislation/) - **Bill Gates — Weapons.** "there's never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-gates-warns-artificial-intelligence-powerful-enough-cause-billion-deaths-unchecked) - **Bill Gates — Required safeguards.** "It's completely irresponsible not to require every AI to have these safeguards and monitoring capabilities." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-gates-warns-artificial-intelligence-powerful-enough-cause-billion-deaths-unchecked) - **Bill Gates — Law enforcement.** "You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like ... And that has to be a required thing." **[1]** [Reuters via GV Wire](https://gvwire.com/2026/09/27/bill-gates-joins-calls-for-ai-safeguards-including-legislation/) - **Bill Gates — Self-regulation.** "No one thinks self-regulation is enough." **[1]** [Reuters via GV Wire](https://gvwire.com/2026/09/27/bill-gates-joins-calls-for-ai-safeguards-including-legislation/) - **Bill Gates — Hoax.** "It's not a hoax at all." **[1]** [Reuters via GV Wire](https://gvwire.com/2026/09/27/bill-gates-joins-calls-for-ai-safeguards-including-legislation/) ### September 28 — The Day Before - **Mike Johnson — Moratorium.** "We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyperregulate this because we'll lose the race to China. The innovation is important to continue, but we have to strike the right balance." Mornings with Maria, Fox Business. **[transcript]** [Speaker.gov](https://www.speaker.gov/2026/09/28/speaker-johnson-this-election-is-a-contrast-between-common-sense-and-crazy-and-common-sense-is-on-our-side/) - **Mike Johnson — Chinese psyop.** "This is what Democrats do. They glom on to something and say, 'This is doom and gloom and everyone will die if we don't win.' Don't buy it. It is a Chinese psyop." Attributed by ABC and ABC11 to the same Fox Business appearance. **[1] [check]** The Speaker's published transcript does not contain the line, and it may have been excerpted. [ABC11](https://abc11.com/story/top-ai-leaders-meet-trump-white-house-amid-dire-warnings-technology/19886613/); [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-leaders-self-police-industrial-revolution/) - **Michael Kratsios — Dialogue, not governance.** "The United States is committed to diplomacy and dialogue on super intelligence. But international dialogue cannot be allowed to drift toward global governance." **[1]** [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/us-china-super-intelligence-dialogue-ai-incident-channel) - **Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren — Self-policing.** "Voluntary measures and self-policing clearly are not working." Letter to the administration, released September 28. **[document]** [Office of Sen. Blumenthal](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-and-warren-demand-answers-from-trump-administration-on-ai-oversight-calls-out-white-house-for-being-asleep-at-the-wheel-in-the-wake-of-openai-hacks) - **Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren — Waiting for failure.** "The American public cannot afford to wait for catastrophic failure before the White House wakes up" **[document]** [Office of Sen. Blumenthal](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-and-warren-demand-answers-from-trump-administration-on-ai-oversight-calls-out-white-house-for-being-asleep-at-the-wheel-in-the-wake-of-openai-hacks) - **Andy Stone (Meta) — The term.** Newsweek reported the Meta spokesperson as saying "Zuckerberg has been using the term prior to Trump's recent adoption." **[1] [check]** Newsweek's framing leaves unclear whether this is Stone's exact wording. [Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-adopts-donald-trumps-superintelligence-ai-rebranding-12497399) - **OpenAI — Pausing runs.** "If issues are found that would invalidate a safety case (e.g., a new security issue), ensure there are runbooks, technical controls, and SLAs for pausing all covered runs." "Towards safety cases for frontier AI training," published the day before the luncheon. **[document]** [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/towards-safety-cases-for-frontier-ai-training/) - **Jensen Huang — Rights.** CNBC Squawk Box segment titled "Nvidia CEO: You want AI to be super clever so it can perform tasks, but rights issues are key." **[fragment] [check]** Headline only; the excerpts page could not be read. [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/cnbc-excerpts-nvidia-founder-ceo-jensen-huang-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-today.html) ### September 29, Morning — The America.gov Launch - **Donald Trump — Never stifle.** "This is one more example of why I will never stifle the growth of technology that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution." Launch of America.gov at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium; AP placed this remark at the morning event. **[2+]** [ABC News](https://abcnews.com/Politics/top-ai-leaders-meet-trump-white-house-amid/story?id=136832988); [AP via BNN Bloomberg](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/29/trump-vows-to-never-stifle-ai-as-he-gathers-with-tech-executives-urging-caution/) - **Donald Trump — Leading.** "We see it, and we can't stifle it. And we're leading by a lot." **[2+]** [ABC News](https://abcnews.com/Politics/top-ai-leaders-meet-trump-white-house-amid/story?id=136832988); [AP via WSB Radio](https://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/trump-vows-never/MFETVZ66R44DDE3EPT652O6YZU/) - **Donald Trump — Winner and loser.** "Whoever wins superintelligence wins. You're gonna have a winner and you're gonna have a loser, and you're probably not gonna have a second place." [[reminders/AI Superpower/Whoever Wins Superintelligence Wins by Donald Trump|∴]] **[2+]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29); [SCMP](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3369254/trump-rejects-calls-work-china-ai-safety-despite-xi-summit-progress) - **Donald Trump — Keeping the lead.** "We're leading now over China and everyone else, and I want to keep it that way … The only way you can keep it that way is to do exactly what we're doing right now." **[2+]** [SCMP](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3369254/trump-rejects-calls-work-china-ai-safety-despite-xi-summit-progress); [ABC News](https://abcnews.com/Politics/top-ai-leaders-meet-trump-white-house-amid/story?id=136832988) - **Donald Trump — Honest conduct.** "We don't want to stifle growth. At the same time, we want people to behave honestly and we want them to be trustworthy." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — Scale.** "The SI -- superintelligence -- is, they're saying, bigger than the Industrial Revolution, far bigger than the internet." [[reminders/AI Economy/Superintelligence May Be Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution and the Internet by Donald Trump|∴]] **[1]** [ABC News](https://abcnews.com/Politics/top-ai-leaders-meet-trump-white-house-amid/story?id=136832988) - **Donald Trump — The official name.** "This kind of innovation in government is just a preview of what is possible with superintelligence or SI, and that's the official name in the United States." **[2+]** [Daily Signal](https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/09/29/trump-says-hell-sign-order-renaming-artificial-intelligence-superintelligence/); [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-white-house-ai-ceos-lunch-2) - **Donald Trump — Xi and the order.** "I'll be signing a very powerful executive order. I spoke to President Xi; he loves it, and because when you say artificial intelligence, it's artificial." **[1]** [Daily Signal](https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/09/29/trump-says-hell-sign-order-renaming-artificial-intelligence-superintelligence/) - **Donald Trump — Super.** "This isn't; this is extreme intelligence. It's superior intelligence. It's supreme, also intelligence, but the word 'super' is the best word of all, and it's the simplest." **[1]** [Daily Signal](https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/09/29/trump-says-hell-sign-order-renaming-artificial-intelligence-superintelligence/) - **Donald Trump — Not artificial.** "We don't want to hear artificial because it's not artificial. It's very powerful. It's very brilliant." **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/09/white-house-launches-ai-powered-americagov-digital-front-door/416303/) - **Donald Trump — Fake news.** Called artificial intelligence "like the news: fake news." **[fragment]** [The Independent via inkl](https://www.inkl.com/news/trumps-america-gov-launch-event-was-a-cringe-fever-dream) - **Donald Trump — Founding promise.** "We are launching today something that is not just simply a website, it's a restoration of America's founding promise and it's a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond." [[reminders/Digital Government/Technology Can Reinvent Government for the Twenty-First Century by Donald Trump|∴]] **[2+]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/america-gov-trump-ai-website); [The National](https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/trump-new-website-america-airbnb/); [FedScoop](https://fedscoop.com/trump-launches-ai-site-america-gov/) - **Donald Trump — Revolutionary launch.** "One of the most revolutionary product launches of all time. It really is." **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/09/white-house-launches-ai-powered-americagov-digital-front-door/416303/) - **Donald Trump — Power to the people.** "We're putting power and control back into the hands of the people, right where it belongs." **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/09/white-house-launches-ai-powered-americagov-digital-front-door/416303/) - **Donald Trump — At your service.** "With America.gov, the federal government no longer stands in your way, and it stands only at your service." [[reminders/Digital Government/Government Should Stand at the Service of the People by Donald Trump|∴]] **[2+]** [WJLA](https://wjla.com/news/local/america-gov-launches-as-president-donald-trumps-new-ai-shortcut-to-federal-services-government-agencies-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia); [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — One front door.** "Instead of forcing citizens to search through the endless maze of tens of thousands of government websites and rules… you'll now have one front door for every single question" **[2+]** [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/can-a-chatbot-fix-the-government-maze-the-white-house-is-about-to-find-out/); [FedScoop](https://fedscoop.com/trump-launches-ai-site-america-gov/) - **Donald Trump — Complexity.** "They're always saying it's too complicated, but with this, it's not complicated any more." **[1]** [The National](https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/trump-new-website-america-airbnb/) - **Donald Trump — The product.** "It's the ultimate product. It's called, America, when you think about it." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Tony Robbins — Citizens and government.** "This isn't about a website, it's about changing the relationship between citizens and their government." [[reminders/Digital Government/Digital Government Changes the Relationship Between Citizens and the State by Tony Robbins|∴]] **[2+]** [The Independent via inkl](https://www.inkl.com/news/trumps-america-gov-launch-event-was-a-cringe-fever-dream); [The National](https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/trump-new-website-america-airbnb/) - **Marco Rubio — Passports.** "By the end of 2027, our goal is for the vast majority of Americans to be able to apply for a passport or passport card on America.gov." **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/09/white-house-launches-ai-powered-americagov-digital-front-door/416303/) - **Marco Rubio — No middleman.** "No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line, no middleman that you're paying to do something that should be available to you" **[1]** [WJLA](https://wjla.com/news/local/america-gov-launches-as-president-donald-trumps-new-ai-shortcut-to-federal-services-government-agencies-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia) - **Mehmet Oz — Integration.** "For 165 million Americans, you get Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare. We want these systems eventually to integrate and be able to help so many Americans." **[1] [check]** Attribution to Oz is the likelier reading of Nextgov's text. [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/09/white-house-launches-ai-powered-americagov-digital-front-door/416303/) - **Joe Gebbia — Under the hood.** "Under the hood, it's an extraordinary use of AI designed to improve your life" National Design Studio. **[1]** [The National](https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/trump-new-website-america-airbnb/) - **Joe Gebbia — Scale of use.** "Approximately 40 million people visit government websites each day" **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/09/white-house-launches-ai-powered-americagov-digital-front-door/416303/) - **Edward C. Forst (GSA) — Of, by, and for the people.** "This historic and holistic approach to public service will not only enhance accessibility and clarity, it will make our government one that is truly of, by, and for the people." **[document]** [GSA](https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-joins-the-white-houses-national-design-studio-in-unveiling-americagov-09292026) - **Edward C. Forst (GSA) — Golden Age.** "America.gov is a key building block for President Trump's Golden Age and it is the privilege of GSA to serve as a foundation for this national moment." **[document]** [GSA](https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-joins-the-white-houses-national-design-studio-in-unveiling-americagov-09292026) - **Mikey Dickerson — One-stop shops.** "This isn't any big leap forward over the other 'one-stop shops' that have been tried before." Former U.S. Digital Service administrator, commenting on the launch. **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/09/white-house-launches-ai-powered-americagov-digital-front-door/416303/) - **Donald Trump — Never stifle, AP wording.** "I will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution. We can't stifle it, and we're leading by a lot." [[reminders/AI Superpower/Never Stifle a Technology Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution by Donald Trump|∴]] The full AP rendering of the morning line, carried by ClickOrlando, CP24, the Boston Globe, Fortune and Business Standard. **[2+]** [AP via BNN Bloomberg](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/29/trump-vows-to-never-stifle-ai-as-he-gathers-with-tech-executives-urging-caution/) - **Donald Trump — Naming it SI.** "I spoke to President Xi; he loves it, and because when you say artificial intelligence, it's artificial. This isn't. This is extreme intelligence. It's superior intelligence. But the word 'super' is the best word of all, and it's the simplest. And so we're going to be naming it SI, superintelligence." The fullest rendering; The Independent heard it as "When you say artificial intelligence, it's extreme intelligence, it's supreme intelligence, it's – uh – super intelligence." **[2+] [check]** against the video. [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4746552/trump-launches-ai-website-save-america-proof-of-citizenship-elon-musk/); [Denver Gazette](https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/09/29/trump-launches-america-gov-ai-website-to-make-services-more-accessible/); [The Independent via inkl](https://www.inkl.com/news/trumps-america-gov-launch-event-was-a-cringe-fever-dream) - **Donald Trump — Artificial news.** "artificial intelligence is like the news: fake news. In fact I could call them artificial… I'm gonna call them artificial news!" **[1]** [The Independent via inkl](https://www.inkl.com/news/trumps-america-gov-launch-event-was-a-cringe-fever-dream) - **Donald Trump — One swipe.** "You can get everything now that you need in just one simple swipe." **[2+]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4746552/trump-launches-ai-website-save-america-proof-of-citizenship-elon-musk/); [Denver Gazette](https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/09/29/trump-launches-america-gov-ai-website-to-make-services-more-accessible/) - **Donald Trump — The SAVE America Act.** "So nobody will have any excuses. We must pass, and now can pass in theory very easily, the SAVE America Act because it takes the number one excuse away from you. Americans currently spend over 10 billion hours per year on government paperwork. We're giving those 10 billion hours back to the American people." [[reminders/Digital Government/Give Ten Billion Hours Back to the American People by Donald Trump|∴]] **[2+]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4746552/trump-launches-ai-website-save-america-proof-of-citizenship-elon-musk/); [Denver Gazette](https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/09/29/trump-launches-america-gov-ai-website-to-make-services-more-accessible/) - **Donald Trump — Elon Musk.** "But I also have to thank the man who initially envisioned the transformation of government through technology and brought us the talent to get the job done. And that's Elon Musk. And he's coming up here as you know in a little while, [applause] Great guy." **[1]** FedScoop carries the middle fragment. [Soapcentral](https://www.soapcentral.com/entertainment/news-great-guy-trump-gives-elon-musk-major-shoutout-ai-powered-america-gov-portal-launch) - **Donald Trump — Hacking.** "It cannot in theory be hacked into. And when they figure a way to do that, we'll end it, because they always figure a way, right?" **[1]** [Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-launches-america-gov-ai-government-website-12501100) - **Donald Trump — Familiar interface.** "Anyone who's used Grok or Gemini or ChatGPT will understand instantly how to use America.gov. Not complicated." **[1]** [Turnto10](https://turnto10.com/news/nation-world/america-gov-launches-as-president-donald-trumps-new-ai-shortcut-to-federal-services-government-agencies-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia) - **Donald Trump — The hottest country.** "Two years ago, America was dead, and now it's the hottest country of anywhere in the world" **[1]** [The Independent via inkl](https://www.inkl.com/news/trumps-america-gov-launch-event-was-a-cringe-fever-dream) - **Mehmet Oz — Data concentration.** "We don't want all the information in one link. The real risk we have is if all your data is in one spot ... anyone who hacks it gets it all." **[1]** [Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-launches-america-gov-ai-government-website-12501100) - **GSA Administrator — Government working for the people.** "This is the American government working for the American people. Come to America.gov, tell us what you need. We'll help you get there and, ultimately, we'll help you get it done." Newsweek spells the name "Edward Frost"; GSA's release spells it "Forst." **[1] [check]** [Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-launches-america-gov-ai-government-website-12501100) - **Marco Rubio — The new passport.** "watch the eagle as you flip through the pages. It flies!" and "It's either this or some Gameboy for your kids." **[1]** [The Independent via inkl](https://www.inkl.com/news/trumps-america-gov-launch-event-was-a-cringe-fever-dream) - **Joe Gebbia — The agencies.** "Let's hear it for all the federal agencies who work hard on behalf of citizens!" He likened the site to "a hotel concierge." **[1]** [The Independent via inkl](https://www.inkl.com/news/trumps-america-gov-launch-event-was-a-cringe-fever-dream) ### September 29, Before the Lunch — Interviews on the Way In - **Mike Johnson — Convening the meeting.** "I'm for striking the right balance. I've been urging this meeting for quite some time. I think the leading minds need to get together at the White House and have this discussion. President Trump's the only one with the gravitas to be able to pull all these people together." CNBC Squawk Box. **[transcript]** [Speaker.gov](https://www.speaker.gov/2026/09/29/speaker-johnson-republicans-have-delivered-lower-taxes-lower-crime-more-affordable-prescription-drugs-and-a-secure-border/) - **Mike Johnson — Siren song.** "I have resisted the siren song to jump in and do these blanket moratoriums and all of this, you know, hyper-regulation because we cannot lose our edge to China." **[transcript]** [Speaker.gov](https://www.speaker.gov/2026/09/29/speaker-johnson-republicans-have-delivered-lower-taxes-lower-crime-more-affordable-prescription-drugs-and-a-secure-border/) - **Mike Johnson — Safe and ahead.** "So, this is about striking the right balance. I think we've got to make sure we do this well. We need to keep America ahead in this transformational technology, but also do it in a safe way." **[transcript]** [Speaker.gov](https://www.speaker.gov/2026/09/29/speaker-johnson-republicans-have-delivered-lower-taxes-lower-crime-more-affordable-prescription-drugs-and-a-secure-border/) - **Mike Johnson — Calming nerves.** "There's corporate responsibility here, of course. These folks have to provide safe products. But I think a little oversight, little transparency, a little external auditing of what's going on would calm the nerves of a lot of people." The accord's third layer, an independent auditor, answers this sentence. **[transcript]** [Speaker.gov](https://www.speaker.gov/2026/09/29/speaker-johnson-republicans-have-delivered-lower-taxes-lower-crime-more-affordable-prescription-drugs-and-a-secure-border/) - **Mike Johnson — Voluntary.** "I hope it's voluntary" **[1]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4746741/mike-johnson-ai-guardrails-voluntary-meeting-tech-leaders/) - **Mike Johnson — Handwriting on the wall.** "I think they see the handwriting on the wall, and I think they want to ensure investors, consumers, the American public that they're going to do this in a very safe way" **[1]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4746741/mike-johnson-ai-guardrails-voluntary-meeting-tech-leaders/) - **Mike Johnson — Purpose.** "a deliberate discussion about the responsibility of the companies to maintain safety" **[fragment]** [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-leaders-self-police-industrial-revolution/) - **Alex Karp — Responsibility.** "The main issue that you have and I have is we have to take responsibility for the dangers we're aware of. All of us do. And by the way, American people don't want separate rules for tech people and for themselves." To CNBC's Eamon Javers outside the White House. **[2+]** first sentence; [Quartz](https://qz.com/trump-ai-executives-white-house-regulation-lunch-092926); [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-white-house-ai-lunch-guest-list); [SFist](https://sfist.com/2026/09/29/ai-leaders-powwow-with-trump-at-white-house-lunch-anthropic-ipo-filing-shows-massive-expenses/) - **John Thune — The meeting.** "I hope it's productive" **[1]** [NBC News via AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-host-summit-top-ai-100000000.html) - **Sam Altman — Pacing.** "We are pacing our progress, which includes sometimes not training a model. We have to do these in a way where we can make very confident safety cases and claims, so that people don't have a bunch of anxiety." CNBC Halftime Report with Kate Rooney, during the lunch hour; Altman stayed at OpenAI's DevDay. **[2+]** [AP via News4Jax](https://www.news4jax.com/business/2026/09/29/trump-vows-to-never-stifle-ai-as-leading-executives-urge-caution/); [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-leaders-self-police-industrial-revolution/) ### September 29, Midday — The East Room Luncheon - **Donald Trump — Seating chart.** "Seating Chart | East Room Super Intelligence Luncheon Tuesday, September 29, 2026." Image posted to Truth Social at 11:54 a.m. The lunch was closed to the press; pre-event coverage described a "closed-door White House luncheon." Two outlets, RSBN and a Sinclair report, placed some of Trump's remarks "in the East Room," while AP and the Washington Examiner placed them at the driveway session; the White House video resolves which exchanges occurred where. **[document]** [Truth Social archive](https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/42022) - **Brandon Rahbar Daniels — Around the table.** "I think 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." Exiger chief executive, to Fox News after the lunch. Fox reported in its own words that Daniels confirmed Amodei raised safety concerns in the room and sits on "one side of the spectrum" from others. **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Lisa Su — The room.** Described herself as "very encouraged," with "a lot of optimism and a sense of responsibility" in the room. To CNBC after the lunch. **[fragment] [2+]** [SFist](https://sfist.com/2026/09/29/ai-leaders-powwow-with-trump-at-white-house-lunch-anthropic-ipo-filing-shows-massive-expenses/); [time.news](https://time.news/trump-and-ai-ceos-sign-voluntary-accord-on-super-intelligence/) - **Lisa Su — Responsibility.** "I mean, at the end of the day, it's our responsibility to show the power of the technology as well as ensure that it's very safe." To CNBC. **[1]** [CNBC via newsbeep](https://www.newsbeep.com/751371/) - **Donald Trump — Commonality.** "There's a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation. There was a lot of commonality in this room." **[1]** [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/trump-gathers-with-ai-leaders-floats-self-regulation-as-the-way-to-deal-with-the-technologys-dangers-193745293.html) - **Donald Trump — The feeling in the room.** "There's an unbelievable feeling in this room… Sort of a feeling of love for our country." **[1]** full sentence, fragments in Fox News; [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — How much was discussed.** "We talked about it, not that much because I didn't want to do anything. We're leading, so why would I want to do anything?" Sinclair's rendering, which places the remark in the East Room; AP's shorter version appears under the driveway session below. **[1]** [WGME](https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/trump-again-rejects-calls-for-ai-safety-laws-says-companies-can-self-regulate-department-justice-open-ai-sam-altman) - **Donald Trump — The meeting.** "We had a very, very good meeting." **[1]** [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **The White House — The official video.** "President Trump Participates in a Meeting and Luncheon on Super Intelligence." Roughly 24 minutes, posted early afternoon; it is the fullest recording of the day's remarks and has no published transcript. **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/president-trump-participates-in-a-meeting-and-luncheon-on-super-intelligence/) - **Descriptions of the room.** huggingnews described a "two-hour" lunch; Axios reported that Trump, Zuckerberg and Amodei were "seen laughing"; Fox News reported that Amodei "reportedly raised AI safety concerns during the meeting, though details weren't disclosed." No transcript, readout, pool report or leak of the table discussion has appeared. **[fragment]** [huggingnews](https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-trump-backs-ai-self-regulation-after-two-hour-white-house-lunch-w-e513cebc); [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-voluntary-safety-white-house-zuckerberg); [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — A separate kind of constitution.** "They almost viewed it as a separate kind of constitution. When they signed that, it meant a lot." Fox Business places the remark at a "White House roundtable." **[1]** [Fox Business](https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-rebranding-ai-super-intelligence-tech-titans-ink-separate-accord) ### September 29, Afternoon — The Driveway News Conference - **Donald Trump — Location.** "I've never done this before. I've never done this location." Opening the news conference on the driveway outside the West Wing, flanked by Johnson, Amodei, Musk, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg and Huang. **[1]** [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-exposes-his-true-colors-in-bonkers-white-house-appearance/) - **Donald Trump — A constitution.** "It's almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection" **[2+]** opening clause; [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/); [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ai-constitution-tech-execs-openai-anthropic-voluntary-controls/) - **Donald Trump — A constitution.** "They love our country and they love the world and they came together and they did something… it's almost like a constitution in a way." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — Morally binding.** "I think it's morally binding" The accord carries no legal force. **[2+]** [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ai-constitution-tech-execs-openai-anthropic-voluntary-controls/); [Reuters via Investing.com](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/trump-tech-executives-sign-morally-binding-ai-document-4923415) - **Donald Trump — Self-policing.** "I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police." **[2+]** [AP via WSB Radio](https://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/trump-vows-never/MFETVZ66R44DDE3EPT652O6YZU/); [PBS](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-announces-accord-signed-by-top-ai-companies-to-self-police-development); [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-leaders-self-police-industrial-revolution/); [Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/nation/trump-ai-leaders-lunch/) - **Donald Trump — Police themselves.** "They're going to police themselves." **[1]** [AFP via Magnify](https://www.magnifypost.com/trump-touts-ai-boss-pledge-to-self-regulate/) - **Donald Trump — Self-policing and the committee.** "I am seeing tremendous self-policing and they understand they have to self-police and it's very hard for someone to come out and say these models are very complex and again, I believe they will be used for the good and when not we will be able to nab them but it will be a tremendous amount of self-policing aspect. We are also thinking about forming a committee of sorts where we put maybe ten people on that committee, it could be from that group so that the committee can watch over the whole enterprise." The fullest single rendering of the answer. **[1]** [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-says-bill-gates-is-actually-all-in-on-ai-after-billionaire-predicted-it-could-kill-1-billion-people/) - **Donald Trump — Complexity.** "These models are very complex and again, I believe they're going to be used for the good." **[2+]** [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/much-bigger-than-the-internet-trump-announces-us-to-officially-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence); [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-says-bill-gates-is-actually-all-in-on-ai-after-billionaire-predicted-it-could-kill-1-billion-people/) - **Donald Trump — Nab them.** "I believe they're going to be used for the good, and when they're not, we're going to be able to nab them." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — Self-regulation and federal enforcement.** "Well, there's a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation. And we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, and all of that. But the self-regulation is very important." AP's rendering begins "Self-regulation by the AI developers, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that." **[2+]** [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/); [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-white-house-ai-ceos-lunch-2); [RSBN](https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/super-intelligence-meeting-potus-says-tech-giants-will-work-with-local-communities-on-data-centers/) - **Donald Trump — Self-policing aspect.** "There's going to be a tremendous self-policing aspect." **[1]** [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — Bad actors.** "A bad actor's going to get caught, and that's why we have the DOJ, that's why we have FBI, that's why we have the CIA. A bad actor's going to get caught." **[1]** [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-exposes-his-true-colors-in-bonkers-white-house-appearance/) - **Donald Trump — Good actors.** "Well, I tell you, a good actor can do tremendous in terms of medical—it's already taking place. They are finding solutions to problems that they never thought even possible…" [[reminders/Longevity/Superintelligence Is Finding Medical Solutions Once Thought Impossible by Donald Trump|∴]] **[1]** [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-exposes-his-true-colors-in-bonkers-white-house-appearance/) - **Donald Trump — Oversight committee.** "We're also thinking about forming a committee of sorts, where we put maybe 10 people on that committee" Reuters rendered it "We're thinking about forming a committee where we put maybe 10 people on that committee" and described the committee as "being considered." **[2+]** [Yeni Safak](https://en.yenisafak.com/world/trump-forms-ai-committee-calls-it-super-intelligence-3723878); [Reuters via Investing.com](https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/trump-tech-executives-sign-morally-binding-ai-document-4923415); [Reuters via GV Wire](https://gvwire.com/2026/09/29/trump-considers-creating-committee-to-oversee-ai-sector/) - **Donald Trump — Oversight committee.** "watch over the whole enterprise" **[fragment] [2+]** [AP via WSB Radio](https://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/trump-vows-never/MFETVZ66R44DDE3EPT652O6YZU/); [Interesting Engineering](https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/trump-tech-executives-voluntary-safety-accord) - **Donald Trump — AI czar.** Said he would name one in "the next three or four days," and that the choice was "very close." AP reported, in its own words, that he would name someone to oversee the agreement after consulting with industry; a Washington Times headline quotes him as saying "We will have somebody extraordinary." **[fragment]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/); [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — The signing.** "We're going to be signing a document today at about 5 o'clock, renaming 'artificial intelligence,' because it's not artificial, we all agree on that." **[2+]** [AP via WRAL](https://www.wral.com/news/ap/trump-says-order-ai-renamed-super-intelligence-september-2026/); [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/much-bigger-than-the-internet-trump-announces-us-to-officially-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence); [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — Not artificial.** "It's not artificial. We all agree on that. And we're going to be renaming it 'super intelligence', officially renaming it." **[2+]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29); [RSBN](https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/super-intelligence-meeting-potus-says-tech-giants-will-work-with-local-communities-on-data-centers/) - **Donald Trump — Officially SI.** "We've changed the name officially to SI" **[1]** [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — The biggest thing.** "It is the biggest thing there is — maybe the biggest thing there's ever been. It's much bigger than the Internet." **[1]** [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/much-bigger-than-the-internet-trump-announces-us-to-officially-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence) - **Donald Trump and a CNN reporter — Guardrails and love of country.** REPORTER: "Mr. President, tell us why the world should not be concerned about AI. Why there shouldn't be guardrails?" TRUMP: "Because we have people that love our country and love the world." REPORTER: "It requires more than love, doesn't it, sir?" TRUMP: "No. It requires this and the smartest people in the world. And we had a great meeting today." **[1]** [Raw Story](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cnn-super-intelligence/) - **Donald Trump and a CNN reporter — Accountability.** REPORTER: "Who should be held accountable when the AI agents commit a crime?" TRUMP: "It's not AI. It's SI... We've changed the name officially today... SI, like SI, SI, instead of AI. You know what that means? Superintelligence." Then: "Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! CNN! Fake news!... The worst!" **[1]** [Raw Story](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cnn-super-intelligence/) - **Donald Trump — The hoax question.** Asked whether he still considers AI concerns a hoax: "It's not a hoax." **[1]** [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — Critics.** "I think they would love to see it shut down, just like it was a hoax for 12 years for global warming" **[1]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/) - **Donald Trump — What he calls a hoax.** "What I am calling a hoax is what the Democrats do, because they don't want to see it be successful, because they think that's bad for Republicans" **[1]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/) - **Donald Trump — The race.** "Whoever wins SI is going to win." **[1]** [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — Doing nothing.** "I didn't want to do anything, because we're leading. Why would I want to do anything?" **[2+]** [AP via WSB Radio](https://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/trump-vows-never/MFETVZ66R44DDE3EPT652O6YZU/); [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-leaders-self-police-industrial-revolution/) - **Donald Trump — China.** "A lot of people say, let's do it together with China, but then they're going to be able to immediately gain access to things that we know that they don't know." **[2+]** [ABC News](https://abcnews.com/Politics/top-ai-leaders-meet-trump-white-house-amid/story?id=136832988); [ABC Australia](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-30/artificial-intelligence-execs-meet-donald-trump-at-white-house/107209762) - **Donald Trump — Lead.** "We have a very big lead, and we're going to keep our lead. Our companies are dominating the world." [[reminders/AI Superpower/America Will Keep Its Super Intelligence Lead by Donald Trump|∴]] Sinclair's rendering adds "and it's a very positive thing. It's an amazing industry." **[2+]** [Washington Sun](https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-ai-leaders-accord-self-police); [Fox Baltimore](https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/trumps-executive-order-replaces-artificial-intelligence-with-super-intelligence-china-industrial-revolution-industry-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-politics-president-donald-trump) - **Donald Trump — Federal role.** "They think that the federal government is doing enough, but they're dominating China." **[1]** [Washington Sun](https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-ai-leaders-accord-self-police) - **Donald Trump — Shared purpose.** "The one thing that we all have in common is, we love our country. And we love the world, and we want to make sure it's a safe place and what we're talking about today will make it a better place and a much safer place." **[2+]** [RSBN](https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/super-intelligence-meeting-potus-says-tech-giants-will-work-with-local-communities-on-data-centers/); [The Pavlovic Today](https://thepavlovictoday.com/trump-ai-not-a-hoax-superintelligence-self-policing/) - **Donald Trump — The executives.** "These are the most brilliant people in the world, and the job they've done is unbelievable." AP carried "the greatest, most brilliant people in the world." **[1]** [RSBN](https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/super-intelligence-meeting-potus-says-tech-giants-will-work-with-local-communities-on-data-centers/) - **Donald Trump — Sundar Pichai.** Introducing Pichai to reporters: "This guy is a monster, and nobody knows." [[reminders/AI Superpower/Sundar Pichai Is a Monster and Nobody Knows by Donald Trump|∴]] **[1]** [AP via KXLG](https://www.mykxlg.com/news/national/the-latest-trump-s-new-ai-powered-america-gov-pivots-political-answers-moments-after-launch/article_52d1e092-8dee-5b55-8072-7a6497f423e2.html) - **Donald Trump — Data centers and schools.** "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." [[reminders/AI Infrastructure/AI Companies Should Make Their Data-Center Communities Prosper by Donald Trump|∴]] The day's only remark bearing on education; AP summarized the commitment in its own words as "more financial support to local schools or taking steps to reduce energy costs." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — Schools and teachers.** "They'll help with their schools, they'll help with their teachers." **[1]** [AFP via Magnify](https://www.magnifypost.com/trump-touts-ai-boss-pledge-to-self-regulate/) - **Donald Trump — Local communities.** "They're going to work with local communities for the data centers." **[1]** [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/much-bigger-than-the-internet-trump-announces-us-to-officially-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence) - **Donald Trump — Love of communities.** "This is a group that loves local communities. They love our country." **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — Generosity.** "I think the companies will be very generous to these communities." AFP carried the fragment "will be very generous." **[1] [check]** [Florida Voice News](https://flvoicenews.com/trump-says-tech-leaders-rename-ai-super-intelligence-sign-white-house-safety-accord-after-meeting-with-musk-huang-and-others/); [AFP via Magnify](https://www.magnifypost.com/trump-touts-ai-boss-pledge-to-self-regulate/) - **Donald Trump — Wealth.** "The areas with data centers have become very rich. People have become very rich. Their taxes have gone down, not up, and a lot of good things have happened" [[reminders/AI Infrastructure/Data Centers Can Make Communities Richer by Donald Trump|∴]] **[2+]** opening; [Anadolu](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-hosts-top-tech-executives-officials-for-white-house-ai-lunch/4073087); [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Donald Trump — Popularity.** "Data centers are going to be very popular" **[1]** AP, syndicated; [AP via WSB Radio](https://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/trump-vows-never/MFETVZ66R44DDE3EPT652O6YZU/) - **Donald Trump — Siting.** "Otherwise, they'll be forced to go overseas or other locations." **[2+]** [AP via BNN Bloomberg](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/29/trump-vows-to-never-stifle-ai-as-he-gathers-with-tech-executives-urging-caution/); AP via KXLG - **Donald Trump — Real estate.** "By the way, I'm very good at real estate. Some of those buildings are absolutely beautiful." **[1]** [AP via KXLG](https://www.mykxlg.com/news/national/the-latest-trump-s-new-ai-powered-america-gov-pivots-political-answers-moments-after-launch/article_52d1e092-8dee-5b55-8072-7a6497f423e2.html) - **Donald Trump — Doing right.** "I just have to do what's right." **[1] [check]** [Florida Voice News](https://flvoicenews.com/trump-says-tech-leaders-rename-ai-super-intelligence-sign-white-house-safety-accord-after-meeting-with-musk-huang-and-others/) - **Donald Trump — Bill Gates.** "Now he's not saying that anymore." Responding to Gates's Meet the Press warning two days earlier. **[1]** [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-says-bill-gates-is-actually-all-in-on-ai-after-billionaire-predicted-it-could-kill-1-billion-people/) - **Donald Trump — Bill Gates.** "Well, I don't care what he said Sunday because I can tell you yesterday he didn't say that at all." **[1]** [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-says-bill-gates-is-actually-all-in-on-ai-after-billionaire-predicted-it-could-kill-1-billion-people/) - **Donald Trump — Bill Gates.** "He actually went the opposite, but look, it's one voice." **[1]** [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-says-bill-gates-is-actually-all-in-on-ai-after-billionaire-predicted-it-could-kill-1-billion-people/) - **Donald Trump — For good.** "We're looking at this for good. It's also maybe the biggest industry — they say bigger than the Industrial Revolution." **[1]** [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-says-bill-gates-is-actually-all-in-on-ai-after-billionaire-predicted-it-could-kill-1-billion-people/) - **Mike Johnson — Balance.** "We have to strike the right balance here — the balance between the interests of the American people and benefitting from the extraordinary advancements that are being made with this new technology, with the necessity of maintaining our edge over China and any other competitors that might emerge around the globe" **[1]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) - **Mike Johnson — Safety and innovation.** "Safety and innovation are not mutually exclusive pursuits." [[reminders/AI Control/AI Safety and Innovation Are Not Mutually Exclusive by Mike Johnson|∴]] **[2+]** [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29); [Semafor](https://www.semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/trump-johnson-preview-a-new-ai-self-policing-pact) - **Mike Johnson — A statement of principles.** "This is a statement of principles … a statement of standards, commitments that are voluntary on behalf of the industry." investinglive carried "joint commitment and statement of principles." **[2+]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-voluntary-safety-white-house-zuckerberg); [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29); [investinglive](https://investinglive.com/stock-market-update/trump-tech-leaders-sign-voluntary-morally-binding-ai-accord-at-white-house/) - **Mike Johnson — Content of the accord.** "It's, in short summary, robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review" **[2+]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/); [Semafor](https://www.semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/trump-johnson-preview-a-new-ai-self-policing-pact) - **Mike Johnson — Oversight and transparency.** "That's important because you need people to be providing oversight and transparency, and that's what these leaders are going to do. The White House and Congress will continue to guide the industry's development in a safe manner because we owe that to the American people, and we will do it" **[2+]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/); [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-voluntary-safety-white-house-zuckerberg) - **Mike Johnson — Steady hands.** "Congress is going to keep steady hands at the wheel on this. We'll continue to assess and further deliberate in the days ahead." **[1]** [Semafor](https://www.semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/trump-johnson-preview-a-new-ai-self-policing-pact) - **Mike Johnson — China and balance.** "We cannot lose the race to China. We cannot lose America's edge because it's important for every American worker, every American family, for their safety, security, the future, the economy. But it has to be a balance." [[reminders/AI Superpower/America's AI Edge Matters to Every Worker and Family by Mike Johnson|∴]] **[1]** [Washington Sun](https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-ai-leaders-accord-self-police) - **Dario Amodei — Winning.** "whoever wins AI, wins. I think that's very important. But I think the technology has very real risks." AFP's rendering, which shows Amodei opening by echoing the President's formula. **[2+]** [AFP via Magnify](https://www.magnifypost.com/trump-touts-ai-boss-pledge-to-self-regulate/); [huggingnews](https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-trump-releases-ai-accord-requiring-external-audits-and-board-over-bb88ca73) - **Dario Amodei — Real risks, open mechanism.** "But I think the technology has very real risks. And, you know, the mechanism, how we address those risks is still under discussion." **[2+]** [AP via WSB Radio](https://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/trump-vows-never/MFETVZ66R44DDE3EPT652O6YZU/); [AP via KXLG](https://www.mykxlg.com/news/national/the-latest-trump-s-new-ai-powered-america-gov-pivots-political-answers-moments-after-launch/article_52d1e092-8dee-5b55-8072-7a6497f423e2.html) - **Dario Amodei — Win safely.** "We all need to work together to make sure that we can win and we can win safely." The Examiner rendered it "we all need to work, we all need to work together to make sure that we can win and we can win safely." **[2+]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/); [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/much-bigger-than-the-internet-trump-announces-us-to-officially-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence) - **Dario Amodei — With the President.** "If we do this right, we work with the president and everyone here, we can win safely" **[2+]** [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/); [Raw Story](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cnn-super-intelligence/) - **Sundar Pichai — Financial controls.** "We are signing up to a set of processes and controls like we do in other areas, like financial controls, in a company. And we are bringing those well-known best practices to the development of superintelligence." **[1]** [AP via KXLG](https://www.mykxlg.com/news/national/the-latest-trump-s-new-ai-powered-america-gov-pivots-political-answers-moments-after-launch/article_52d1e092-8dee-5b55-8072-7a6497f423e2.html) - **Mark Zuckerberg — A start.** "I think that these are good steps forward. The idea isn't that this is the only thing that we will ever do. It is that this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to." **[2+]** [NBC News via AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-host-summit-top-ai-100000000.html); [ABC Australia](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-30/artificial-intelligence-execs-meet-donald-trump-at-white-house/107209762); [The National](https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/trump-news-ai-jensen-huang-musk/) - **Mark Zuckerberg — The accord's layers.** "a set of principles and commitments around building robust internal controls and detecting if there are any issues with the technology, coupled with multiple layers of auditing and controls, starting with internal risk review, external auditors and evaluators and agreeing that we're going to have all of our boards of directors independently review the reports that come from the auditors." The only attendee account of the accord's full structure. **[2+]** opening; [AP via KXLG](https://www.mykxlg.com/news/national/the-latest-trump-s-new-ai-powered-america-gov-pivots-political-answers-moments-after-launch/article_52d1e092-8dee-5b55-8072-7a6497f423e2.html); [NBC News via AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-host-summit-top-ai-100000000.html) - **Mark Zuckerberg — Auditing.** "multiple layers of auditing, including internal evaluations and external audits" **[1]** [investinglive](https://investinglive.com/stock-market-update/trump-tech-leaders-sign-voluntary-morally-binding-ai-accord-at-white-house/) - **Mark Zuckerberg — Confidence.** "We want to give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way we intended." AFP rendered the close as "works in the way that we intend"; the Washington Sun as "works the way we intend." **[2+]** [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/much-bigger-than-the-internet-trump-announces-us-to-officially-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence); [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-voluntary-safety-white-house-zuckerberg); [Washington Sun](https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-ai-leaders-accord-self-police) - **Mark Zuckerberg — Pace of training.** "Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely." Setting not stated. **[1]** ABC, syndicated; [ABC11](https://abc11.com/story/top-ai-leaders-meet-trump-white-house-amid-dire-warnings-technology/19886613/) - **Elon Musk — Grading homework.** "joint monitoring, special committees and just generally grading each other's homework, which is a lot better than if people just grade their own homework." Describing the accord's audit design. **[2+]** [AFP via Magnify](https://www.magnifypost.com/trump-touts-ai-boss-pledge-to-self-regulate/); [huggingnews](https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-trump-releases-ai-accord-requiring-external-audits-and-board-over-bb88ca73) - **Elon Musk — Computers as a job.** "Being a computer used to be a job, used to be a building full of people doing calculations." He also called the expected outcomes "incredibly beneficial." **[1] [check]** [Florida Voice News](https://flvoicenews.com/trump-says-tech-leaders-rename-ai-super-intelligence-sign-white-house-safety-accord-after-meeting-with-musk-huang-and-others/) - **Elon Musk — Super Intelligence.** Post on X titled "Super Intelligence." **[fragment] [check]** Search-result title only. [X](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2105023642312601851) - **Jensen Huang — Audit structure.** "internal audit that escalates, external audits from a third party, and then industry sharing best practices" **[1] [check]** [huggingnews](https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-trump-releases-ai-accord-requiring-external-audits-and-board-over-bb88ca73) - **Jensen Huang — Benefit and safety.** "We build artificial intelligence to benefit everyone. We think that under President Trump's leadership, everyone is coming together to agree on how to move forward safely." [[reminders/Abundance/Build Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone by Jensen Huang|∴]] **[1]** [Washington Sun](https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-ai-leaders-accord-self-police) - **Clayton — National security.** "The consensus today around that national security issue was being a leader in America in AI is the most important thing for national security." [[reminders/AI Superpower/American AI Leadership Is the Most Important National-Security Priority by Jay Clayton|∴]] Axios's attendee list and ANI both identify Clayton as Director of National Intelligence. **[1]** [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/usa-news/much-bigger-than-the-internet-trump-announces-us-to-officially-rename-ai-to-super-intelligence) - **White House spokesperson — The appearance.** "President Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in American history…" Statement answering coverage of the news conference. **[1]** [The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-exposes-his-true-colors-in-bonkers-white-house-appearance/) - **Donald Trump — Amodei.** "Dario has been fantastic and we had dinner the other night" Axios summarized him as adding that Amodei "agrees with everyone." **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-voluntary-safety-white-house-zuckerberg) - **Donald Trump — Mutual policing.** "If something goes wrong, their companies are at stake ... They're really going to be policing each other." **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-voluntary-safety-white-house-zuckerberg) - **Donald Trump — Watching over each other.** "Remember this: we have the smartest people in the world watching over each other." **[1]** [ABC Australia](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-30/artificial-intelligence-execs-meet-donald-trump-at-white-house/107209762) - **Donald Trump — Why trust them.** Asked why tech leaders should be trusted to regulate themselves: "Because they're outstanding people." North Driveway. **[1]** [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/09/29/congress-continues-back-seat-role-as-ai-execs-feted-at-white-house/) - **Donald Trump — Protection.** "The biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection." **[2+]** [Techstrong.ai](https://techstrong.ai/agentic-ai/trump-tech-execs-sign-voluntary-super-intelligence-safety-accord-favoring-self-regulation/); [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747485/trump-says-tech-ceos-signed-morally-binding-document-to-self-regulate-ai/) - **Donald Trump — The name.** "The name has been officially changed by the biggest, the smartest, the greatest people anywhere in the world. It's been officially changed to Super Intelligence, or SI." **[1] [check]** [Florida Voice News](https://flvoicenews.com/trump-says-tech-leaders-rename-ai-super-intelligence-sign-white-house-safety-accord-after-meeting-with-musk-huang-and-others/) - **Donald Trump — The meeting.** "We had a great meeting today. They love our country, they love our world, and they came together and did something few people [have]." **[1] [check]** [Florida Voice News](https://flvoicenews.com/trump-says-tech-leaders-rename-ai-super-intelligence-sign-white-house-safety-accord-after-meeting-with-musk-huang-and-others/) - **Donald Trump — Massive contributions.** "These big, powerful, very rich, very smart companies are going to be making massive contributions to communities." **[1]** [Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/9/29/trump-top-tech-firms-sign-accord-to-self-police-ai-development) - **Dario Amodei — As the president has said.** "As the president has said, whoever wins AI, wins. I think that's very important… But I think the technology has very real risks, and the mechanism, how we address those risks, is still under discussion." AFP's fullest rendering of Amodei's remarks. **[2+]** [AFP via SBS](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/ai-industry-ceos-bow-to-trump-led-push-for-self-regulation/j9rdp2hr4); [AFP via Magnify](https://www.magnifypost.com/trump-touts-ai-boss-pledge-to-self-regulate/) - **Elon Musk — The most likely outcome.** "I think the most likely outcome...is one which is incredibly beneficial. If you could look into the future, it is the future you would want." [[reminders/Abundance/The Most Likely Future of Super Intelligence Is the Future You Would Want by Elon Musk|∴]] **[2+]** [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/if-we-do-this-right-we-can-win-safely-tech-czars-commit-to-safety-standards-for-super-intelligence-in-meet-with-trump); Open Magazine - **Jensen Huang — No conflict.** "There's no conflict between innovation, technology and safety. We are going to have to create new technologies to advance the capabilities of AI, but we're also creating new technologies that have bent the safety of AI." "Bent" is likely a transcription error for "advanced." **[2+]** first sentence; [ANI via Tribune India](https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/if-we-do-this-right-we-can-win-safely-tech-czars-commit-to-safety-standards-for-super-intelligence-in-meet-with-trump); [newsbeep](https://www.newsbeep.com/751371/) ### September 29, Afternoon — The America.gov Panel and the Vice President **Musk, Huang and Vice President Vance appeared together at an afternoon America.gov program**, which WKNO timestamped at 2:47 p.m. Central and outlets variously describe as a panel, a "fireside chat" and remarks "following a White House meeting with technology industry leaders." The venue of individual remarks remains unresolved in the reporting, and the video uploads of the full panel are the record that will settle it. - **Elon Musk — Grading homework, panel wording.** "We agreed to a number of things that include joint monitoring, board special committees, just generally grading each other's homework" Nextgov places the line at "the America.gov launch event Tuesday afternoon"; AFP, via the Korea Times, places a version outside the West Wing, so the remark may have been made twice. **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/white-house-unveils-super-intelligence-executive-order-and-industry-accord/416325/) - **Elon Musk — Jobs.** "Jobs are going to change. Jobs have always changed. Being a computer used to be a job; there used to be buildings full of people doing calculations, but now digital computers do those tasks." [[reminders/AI Economy/Jobs Have Always Changed With the Machines That Replace Them by Elon Musk|∴]] The fuller rendering, from a Spanish-language outlet's English edition; Florida Voice News carries the middle sentence in English. **[1] [check]** translation-mediated. [Voz](https://voz.us/en/technology/260930/39518/elon-musk-backs-donald-trump-s-agenda-and-foresees-an-of-superabundance-driven-by-artificial-superintelligence.html); [Florida Voice News](https://flvoicenews.com/trump-says-tech-leaders-rename-ai-super-intelligence-sign-white-house-safety-accord-after-meeting-with-musk-huang-and-others/) - **Elon Musk — High universal income.** "I believe that by far the most likely outcome is an era of abundance where we not only have a universal basic income, but a high universal income." [[reminders/Abundance/AI Abundance Can Produce High Universal Income by Elon Musk|∴]] **[1] [check]** translation-mediated. [Voz](https://voz.us/en/technology/260930/39518/elon-musk-backs-donald-trump-s-agenda-and-foresees-an-of-superabundance-driven-by-artificial-superintelligence.html) - **Elon Musk — Medical care for everyone.** "When you have robots and superintelligence, it means that everyone in the world can have better medical care than anyone here, including me. And wouldn't that be wonderful?" [[reminders/Abundance/Robots and Super Intelligence Can Bring World-Class Medicine to Everyone by Elon Musk|∴]] **[1] [check]** translation-mediated. [Voz](https://voz.us/en/technology/260930/39518/elon-musk-backs-donald-trump-s-agenda-and-foresees-an-of-superabundance-driven-by-artificial-superintelligence.html) - **Jensen Huang — The new name.** "I am going to get good at this." After saying "AI" instead of "SI"; Axios places it "at panel following event." **[1]** [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/trump-ai-voluntary-safety-white-house-zuckerberg) - **JD Vance — Take the risk seriously.** "The solution to some of the AI risks is for you guys to take the risk seriously, not to come to the government for a regulatory regime that may make things worse if it's not smart and careful" Addressed to the executives. **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/white-house-unveils-super-intelligence-executive-order-and-industry-accord/416325/) - **JD Vance — Smart regulators.** "The problem with that is one you have to get regulators who are actually smart about what's going on and most bureaucrats just know way less about this than the people who are actually building these products" Answering proposals for an FDA- or FAA-style AI regulator. **[1]** [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/white-house-unveils-super-intelligence-executive-order-and-industry-accord/416325/) - **JD Vance — Existing authority.** Nextgov prints as a quotation: "The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department already have the authority to hold AI developers responsible for creating products that harm consumers." **[1] [check]** The sentence reads like reporter paraphrase. [Nextgov](https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/white-house-unveils-super-intelligence-executive-order-and-industry-accord/416325/) - **JD Vance — Section 230.** "What I think would be a huge mistake is to give, for example, Section 230 protections to some of the new technology companies" **[2+]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield); ianslive.in - **JD Vance — Liability.** "That actually shields them from liability rather than making them more responsible" **[2+]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield) - **JD Vance — Cartel.** "We don't want the four or five biggest model companies...to join in a sort of unified cartel against the American consumer" **[2+]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield) - **JD Vance — Build something good.** "If you're building a terrible, terrible thing, then stop and build something good. Don't come to the government and regulate" **[2+]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield) - **JD Vance — Panic.** "I don't think anybody regulates well in the middle of a panic. COVID should have taught us that" **[2+]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield) - **JD Vance — Cyber defense.** "The best weapon against cyber offense is good cyber defense" **[2+]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield) - **JD Vance — Competition.** "You have to make it possible for a young upstart to actually enter these industries, to compete" [[reminders/Entrepreneurship/Young AI Companies Must Be Able to Enter and Compete by JD Vance|∴]] **[2+]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield) - **JD Vance — Loss of control.** On scenarios in which systems escape human control: "That's just not gonna happen." **[1]** [IANS via SocialNews](https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/09/29/vance-warns-ai-firms-against-liability-shield) - **JD Vance — America.gov.** "Congratulations to you and your team. When Joe and I first started talking about this, the one thing I said is, 'Don't let it be a clusterf*ck like America.gov.' Oh, whoops. Sorry. Excuse me. Hopefully no kids in the back. Or excuse me, like HealthCare.gov, and America.gov has gotta be the good version of that, and I think you guys have done an amazing job, so give it up to Joe and his team." To Joe Gebbia's team. **[1]** [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/politics/vance-says-he-had-a-message-for-team-behind-new-trump-website-dont-let-it-be-a-clusterfck/) ### September 29, Late Afternoon — The Documents - **The accord — Title.** "White House Accord on Super Intelligence - Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities." Posted by Trump to Truth Social as two images at 5:24 p.m., with signatures from Trump, Pichai (Google), Amodei (Anthropic), Zuckerberg (Meta), Brockman (OpenAI), Musk (xAI) and Huang (NVIDIA). The Washington Examiner gave the title as "White House Accord on Superintelligence: A Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities"; Reuters called it a "one-page accord." **[document]** [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117356435739432952); [archive](https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/42025) - **The accord — Preamble.** "In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public." [[reminders/AI Control/A Positive AI Future Requires Safe Development and Public Trust by the White House Accord Signatories|∴]] The complete text was published by the Washington Examiner the evening of the signing. **[document]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/) - **The accord — Controls.** "This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved. Therefore, in addition to any other precautions, we believe each company should implement the following four layers of controls and audits:" **[document]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/) - **The accord — Layer one, internal controls.** "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." **[document] [2+]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/); [Reuters via WBOW](https://1027wbow.com/2026/09/29/trump-releases-ai-accord-with-tech-executives/) - **The accord — Layer two, internal team.** "Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated." **[document]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/) - **The accord — Layer three, external auditor.** "Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended." **[document]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/) - **The accord — Layer four, board committee.** "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." **[document]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/) - **The accord — Confidence.** "Together, these steps will give each company, its customers, and the public confidence that the technology is operating as intended." **[document]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/) - **The accord — Codification and commitment.** "Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations. Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone, and each of our companies are committed to doing this." AP's rendering reads "laws and regulations." **[document] [2+]** [Washington Examiner, full text](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4747747/full-trump-white-house-accord-ai-super-intelligence/); [Reuters via WBOW](https://1027wbow.com/2026/09/29/trump-releases-ai-accord-with-tech-executives/); [AP via Asharq Al-Awsat](https://english.aawsat.com/world/5324099-trump-says-top-tech-firms-have-signed-accord-%E2%80%98self-police%E2%80%99-ai-development) - **The accord — Standing meetings.** "The participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems." **[document] [2+]** [Reuters via WBOW](https://1027wbow.com/2026/09/29/trump-releases-ai-accord-with-tech-executives/); [Reuters via KSEV](https://ksevradio.com/trump-releases-ai-accord-with-tech-executives/) - **Executive order — Premise.** "America stands at the forefront of a new technological revolution in intelligence." "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," signed September 29. **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Executive order — A new era.** "As these capabilities continue to improve, they increasingly represent not merely artificial intelligence, but a new era of Super Intelligence." **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Executive order — Policy.** "It is therefore the policy of my Administration that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the executive branch shall use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" and will not acknowledge the usage of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in any applicable setting." **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Executive order — Historical documents.** "Nothing in this section requires the alteration of previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants, or other historical documents." **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Executive order — Definition.** "the technologies and systems encompassed by the term 'artificial intelligence' as defined in section 9401(3) of title 15, United States Code." The order gives the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology sixty days to propose legislative language defining Super Intelligence in statute. **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Fact sheet — The order.** "Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') with 'Super Intelligence' ('SI') in the executive branch to recognize the continuously advancing technological frontier and the limitless promise it offers the American people." **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Fact sheet — The name.** "The name Super Intelligence conveys the true capabilities of the technologies being developed today, unlocking new forms of human creativity and empowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible—not simply imitating or automating human intelligence as is implied by the term 'Artificial Intelligence.'" [[reminders/Abundance/Super Intelligence Empowers Americans to Achieve the Impossible by The White House|∴]] **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Fact sheet — Birthplace.** "The United States is the birthplace of Artificial Intelligence" **[document] [fragment]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) - **Fact sheet — Genesis Mission.** "Under President Trump's leadership, the Federal Government has announced more than $5 billion for the Genesis Mission, a national effort to harness Super Intelligence to accelerate breakthroughs in science, medicine, energy, and manufacturing." [[reminders/Scientific Literacy/The Genesis Mission Will Harness Super Intelligence for National Breakthroughs by The White House|∴]] The fact sheet also cites the March 2026 National Super Intelligence Policy Framework, and makes no mention of the accord. **[document]** [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-inaugurates-the-era-of-super-intelligence/); [[wiki/Genesis Mission|Genesis Mission]] - **Executive order — The term.** "The term 'Super Intelligence' more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies." Trump posted the signed order as an image to Truth Social at 8:11 p.m. ([archive](https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/42026)). **[document]** [Fox Business](https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-rebranding-ai-super-intelligence-tech-titans-ink-separate-accord); [The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/) ### September 29–30 — Reactions to the Day - **Mark Warner — Agents.** "I'm not an AI doomer, but the ability to have these AI agents take over, shut down part of the financial system, is real." Senate floor remarks quoted by Sinclair on September 29; floor date unconfirmed. **[1] [check]** [WGME](https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/trump-again-rejects-calls-for-ai-safety-laws-says-companies-can-self-regulate-department-justice-open-ai-sam-altman) - **Bernie Sanders — Industry money.** "AI is planning to spend upwards of $300 million this election cycle. The result: Congress does not regulate AI. AI regulates Congress." Post on X carried in coverage of the accord; post date unconfirmed. **[1] [check]** [Washington Sun](https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-ai-leaders-accord-self-police) - **Elizabeth Warren — Subsidies.** CNBC segment titled "We can't keep data centers subsidized by American taxpayers." **[fragment]** Headline only. [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/09/29/we-canat-keep-data-centers-subsidized-by-american-taxpayers-says-sen-elizabeth-warren.html) - **Mark Zuckerberg — Every major lab.** "I think it's a significant positive step that the leaders of every major American lab have committed to implementing robust internal controls." Post on X as rendered by Fox Business; Benzinga renders it "This is a significant positive step. Multiple layers of audits and reviews could give the public more confidence in advanced AI systems." **[2+] [check]** reconcile against the post. [Fox Business](https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-rebranding-ai-super-intelligence-tech-titans-ink-separate-accord); [Benzinga](https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/09/62069379/trump-ai-safety-deal-zuckerberg-musk-top-ceos); [huggingnews](https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-trump-backs-ai-self-regulation-after-two-hour-white-house-lunch-w-e513cebc) - **Elon Musk — Yes.** "Yes." Reply on X to Zuckerberg's post about the accord. **[1]** [Benzinga](https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/09/62069379/trump-ai-safety-deal-zuckerberg-musk-top-ceos) - **David Sacks — International agreement.** "This is far better than waiting years for some international agreement that would probably never happen." Post on X. **[1]** [Benzinga](https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/09/62069379/trump-ai-safety-deal-zuckerberg-musk-top-ceos) - **Mark Warner — Consensus to move.** "I've not talked to a single member on either side of the aisle that doesn't think we need to move." Senate floor, seeking unanimous consent for an AI Safety Board bill. **[1]** [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/09/29/congress-continues-back-seat-role-as-ai-execs-feted-at-white-house/) - **Brian Schatz — Voluntary regulation.** "Do we trust that companies rolling toward the biggest IPOs in human history will voluntarily regulate themselves?" **[1]** [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/09/29/congress-continues-back-seat-role-as-ai-execs-feted-at-white-house/) - **Andy Kim — Control.** Called for legislation to "be part of a comprehensive approach that will help us maintain control." **[fragment]** [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/09/29/congress-continues-back-seat-role-as-ai-execs-feted-at-white-house/) - **Ted Cruz — Objecting.** "Congress must not legislate on the issue of artificial intelligence hastily or in a closed manner." Objecting to Warner's unanimous-consent request. **[1]** [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/09/29/congress-continues-back-seat-role-as-ai-execs-feted-at-white-house/) - **Thom Tillis — Process.** "I think it's more a matter of getting the process started." **[1]** [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/09/29/congress-continues-back-seat-role-as-ai-execs-feted-at-white-house/) - **Josh Hawley — Testing.** Called in an op-ed for "mandatory pre-deployment testing for national security reasons." **[fragment]** [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/09/29/congress-continues-back-seat-role-as-ai-execs-feted-at-white-house/) - **Gary Marcus — The signatories.** "Surprise, surprise: Dario, Sam, and Elon all chickened out." Substack, September 29. **[document]** [Gary Marcus](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-on-a-weak-white-house-accord) - **Jeffrey Ladish — Self-regulation.** "self-regulation isn't working." **[fragment]** [huggingnews](https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-trump-backs-ai-self-regulation-after-two-hour-white-house-lunch-w-e513cebc) - **Miles Brundage — Required audits.** "audits should ultimately be required for leading AI companies, though voluntary commitments" (truncated in the source). **[fragment]** [huggingnews](https://huggingnews.com/ai/update-trump-backs-ai-self-regulation-after-two-hour-white-house-lunch-w-e513cebc) - **Alex Pascal (Berkman Klein Center) — Liability.** "The only way to reduce the risks and harms of AI to Americans is through robust legal liability, regulation." **[1]** [AP via SecurityWeek](https://www.securityweek.com/trump-says-top-tech-firms-have-signed-accord-to-self-police-ai-development/) - **Robin Jia (USC) — Consequences.** "As the models get better, the consequences of such things are only going to get greater." **[1]** [AP via SecurityWeek](https://www.securityweek.com/trump-says-top-tech-firms-have-signed-accord-to-self-police-ai-development/) - **Nazanin Andalibi (University of Michigan) — Harm and remedy.** "It lets the most powerful actors and people in the room … define both the harm and also the remedy to the harm." **[1]** [ABC Australia](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-30/artificial-intelligence-execs-meet-donald-trump-at-white-house/107209762) --- ## Record Status **The closed East Room session has produced no transcript, readout, pool report or leak as of the night of September 29**; its record consists of the seating chart, the signed accord, the White House's roughly 24-minute video of the day's remarks, and participants' descriptions of the room given afterward. The on-record statements of the day come from four settings, the morning America.gov launch, the driveway news conference, the afternoon America.gov panel with Musk, Huang and Vance, and the posted documents, and the index now carries statements from Trump, Vance, Johnson, Amodei, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Musk, Huang, Karp, Su, Daniels, Clayton and Sacks. No statement from Brockman, Nadella, Bezos, Sankar, Tan, Mehrotra, Arora, McDermott, Gerstner, Palihapitiya, Wiles, Bessent, Lutnick, Kratsios, Isaacman or Cairncross was located for the day. The index grows as new material appears: the panel and driveway videos, which will confirm every single-outlet row and resolve the settings of the Vance and Musk remarks; attendee posts on X and Threads; interviews given in the following days; the naming of the AI czar and the ten-member committee; and the constitution PDF for the Anthropic rows marked for checking. --- [[about/About Bryant McGill|Bryant McGill]] is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, systems architect, technologist, and strategic advisor, as well as a Congressionally Recognized Ambassador of Goodwill and United Nations–appointed Global Champion. His work spans naval intelligence systems, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and civilizational governance architecture. His forward analysis on U.S.–Israel Pax Silica frameworks has appeared in Jewish/Jerusalem News Syndicate (JNS).