Trump proposes AI self-regulation accord with tech executives

President Donald Trump has a plan for keeping the most powerful AI systems in check. The plan is to let the companies building them keep themselves in check. On September 29, 2026, Trump unveiled the White House Accord on Super Intelligence at a meeting with top technology executives. It is a voluntary, one-page agreement committing signatories to layered safety controls on frontier AI models. The page contains no enforcement mechanism and no penalties. What the accord actually says The signatory list includes Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Jeff Bezos of Amazon also attended the luncheon where the accord was presented. The White House released the document the same day as the meeting. The agreement commits companies to four layers of oversight for their most advanced models. The first layer is internal control while models are deployed. Companies monitor what their systems can do and what risks they pose once they are out in the world. The second layer involves dedicated monitoring teams tasked with watching for problems on an ongoing basis. The third layer brings in...