At A.I. Event, Trump Asks Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft to Make Safety Decisions Themselves
President Trump’s meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” the term that Mr. Trump prefers.
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At White House, Trump Asks A.I. Titans to Police Themselves
President Trump’s meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” the term that Mr. Trump prefers.
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Katie Rogers covers the White House, and Cecilia Kang reports on technology and regulatory policy.
Sept. 29, 2026
President Trump summoned the world’s most powerful technology executives to the White House on Tuesday, and praised the assembled billionaires as “very brilliant” minds who wanted to make the world a better place through job creation, the construction of data centers and the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence.
As president, Mr. Trump faces questions about whether A.I. should be regulated, and particularly whether restrictions should be put in place to protect humans from technology that has learned to outmaneuver existing safeguards.
But in the end, convening all of those billions and all of that brain power did not result in a commitment to formal regulation. Instead, they signed a voluntary agreement to adopt safety policies that include risk reviews, auditing and evaluations of systems by third parties. They also agreed to adopt Mr. Trump’s preferred rebranding of A.I.: “super intelligence.”
“This is going to be all for the good, and we’re going to have it be nice and safe,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday afternoon, when he and the tech leaders took questions outside the White House. “And they’re really going to be policing each other, and that’s the way it works.”
Asked if the agreement would be binding, Mr. Trump said, “I think it’s morally binding.”
Inside the White House luncheon, Mr. Trump’s seating chart (which he posted on social media) revealed a powerful assemblage of executives who are deeply divided on the need for A.I. safeguards. The meeting also included top officials, such as Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President JD Vance, who believe that formalized safeguards would hurt American competitiveness.
In the middle of it all was Mr. Trump, who has punted to a group of executives to decide how best to wrangle the rapidly evolving technology, or whether it should be wrangled at all.
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