Trump, top tech firms sign accord to ‘self-police’ AI development

Accord says companies will implement ‘robust internal controls’ for their AI systems and partner with an external auditor to monitor the controls.Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026United States President Donald Trump and top tech executives have signed an accord to “self-police” artificial intelligence, as calls grow for more guardrails to mitigate risks associated with the technology’s rapid growth.Trump announced the accord on Tuesday after meeting with a large group of AI company leaders at the White House.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump unveils new site to simplify access to government serviceslist 2 of 3Pope Leo says AI risk concerns not ‘fake news’list 3 of 3OpenAI cancels release of AI model GPT-6.1 Astra, citing safety concernsend of listExecutives at the meeting included OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.The accord – which Trump posted on his Truth Social platform – said the companies would implement “robust internal controls”, partner with an “independent external auditor” to assess whether the controls were working, and set up a committee among each company’s boa...