Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
Maddy VarnerBusinessSep 30, 2026 4:30 PMTrump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-SwearSix major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. Second, they should “empower” an internal team to do that work (and remediate when things go wrong). Third, it encourages them to partner with an external monitor who is “empowered” to do independent assessments to make sure that all of that work is happening.
- ▪Maddy VarnerBusinessSep 30, 2026 4:30 PMTrump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-SwearSix major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards.
- ▪Second, they should “empower” an internal team to do that work (and remediate when things go wrong).
- ▪Third, it encourages them to partner with an external monitor who is “empowered” to do independent assessments to make sure that all of that work is happening.
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Maddy VarnerBusinessSep 30, 2026 4:30 PMTrump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-SwearSix major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION: WIRED STAFF; GETTY IMAGESCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyOn Tuesday, executives for Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia all signed “The White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which was announced following a luncheon held by President Donald Trump.The effort was an act of “tremendous self-regulation,” as Trump put it, but the agreement is not the sweeping AI regulation that people inside the companies themselves have been asking for.
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