Top AI and tech firms sign 'morally binding' accord to 'self-police' development after meeting at White House

US President Donald Trump said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies signed a voluntary accord on Tuesday that will include internal and external reviews during a meeting aimed at addressing Americans' fears about the technology and its risks on humanity.

“I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump told reporters during an impromptu press conference outside the West Wing.

Trump and US House Speaker Mike Johnson met with leading executives from top tech and AI firms at the White House that are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out AI infrastructure, including data centres in communities across the country, which have sparked grassroots, bipartisan opposition.

The accord was signed by Trump, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI – now part of SpaceX.

The accord, which Trump posted on his social media site, Truth Social, late on Tuesday, opened the door to future regulation but focused on four voluntary steps for the companies to take.

It said the companies would implement “robust internal controls,” partner with an “independent external auditor” to assess whether the controls are working, and establish a committee within each company's board of directors to evaluate reports from internal and external auditors.