U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a “morally binding” artificial intelligence (A.I.) safety agreement with the country’s leading technology leaders.
The agreement was signed following a luncheon at the White House and comes as public and industry calls for guardrails on A.I. technologies grow louder.
Surrounded by top executives such as Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Dario Amodei, Trump told reporters that he’s “seeing tremendous self-policing” from the industry.
White House officials referred to the signed agreement as a “statement of principles” that are “voluntary on behalf of the industry.”
Public concerns over the rapid rise of A.I. have intensified in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley amid reports of rogue A.I. agents acting independent of human control.
Trump continues to insist that the U.S. government will not halt A.I. development and promoted self-regulation as the answer to people’s worries.
Trump also continues to push multibillion-dollar data centres despite a mounting backlash against the projects and their environmental impacts.
Finally, Trump has promised to name a new A.I. czar in coming days who will work with the technology industry to advance America’s interests in the space.
Earlier this week, OpenAI postponed the release of its latest A.I. model over safety concerns. Just last week, the company said it was conducting an “extensive” review of A.I. behavior.
Also in recent days, former Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Bill Gates called publicly for government regulation of A.I., saying the technology has the potential to kill billions of people.
