Self-Policing Pledge: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence companies would police themselves, after a White House meeting with leading tech executives. “I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing,” he told reporters outside the West Wing. Trump also floated a committee of about 10 people, possibly drawn from the group, to “watch over the whole enterprise”. He called the voluntary accord “morally binding”, although it carries no legal weight.
\n\nJohnson’s Summary: House Speaker Mike Johnson formally named the document as “The White House Accord on Superintelligence: A Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities”. He described it as a statement of standards whose commitments are “voluntary on behalf of the industry”. In short, Johnson said, it means “robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review”. The accord adds that “it may make sense to codify” the steps in future.
\n\nAmodei’s Caution: Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei backed Trump’s stress on US leadership but warned of the dangers. “Whoever wins AI wins,” he said. “I think the technology has very real risks, and the mechanism, how we address those risks, is still under discussion.” Amodei said everyone must “work together to make sure that we can win…
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