President Donald Trump's new White House Accord on Super Intelligence is garnering attention for reasons that have nothing to do with its content.
The "morally binding" accord on developing the technology safely, signed by the president and leading tech executives at the White House on Sept. 29, includes a misspelling under the president's signature with “United States” written as "Unites States."
White House Accord on Super Intelligence pic.twitter.com/NVNkHmLcbk
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 30, 2026
The document, which was posted to the White House's social media account Sept 30, has since been widely circulated with the spelling error. It is not clear how the misspelling occurred and if the document will appear the same way in the Federal Register.
The White House did not immediately
respond to USA TODAY's request for a comment on the matter.
However, social media users and politicians, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, did not hesitate to mock the error.
The Golden Age of “Super Intelligence.” https://t.co/woOzB2yEg3 pic.twitter.com/IRMeTvNZNA
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 30, 2026
Being able to spell the name of our country should be a prerequisite for holding public office. https://t.co/cYSCqeN0pl
— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) September 30, 2026
You spelled “United States,” wrong on your Super Intelligence memo. https://t.co/3xvThJtbqc
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) September 30, 2026
What is the White House Accord on Super Intelligence?
The agreement on “Super Intelligence,” the term Trump has used to rebrand artificial intelligence, signed by him and six executives of the country's largest AI firms, calls on companies to have "robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended."
It also asks companies to partner with an independent external auditor to carry out assessments and "designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversee to receive reports, oversee and receive reports from the terms operating the controls."
Executive signatories include Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
'Almost like a constitution'
Trump described the document as "morally binding" with a "tremendous self-policing aspect.”
"They love our country, they love the world and they came together," said Trump. "It's almost like a constitution in a way. The biggest people in the world signed that and I signed it as president."
Zuckerberg, while speaking to press after signing the document, said "the basic idea" is to "give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way that we intend." He added that currently, every company was building something with different sets of standards.
Trump also launches America.gov
Trump in the past has rejected calls from industry leaders and researchers to proceed with caution on the development of AI.
Earlier in the day, he announced that he was planning to officially rebrand “artificial intelligence” as "super intelligence" in all government documents with an executive order.
“Because when you say artificial intelligence, it's artificial,” he said. “This is extreme intelligence. It's superior intelligence. It's supreme also intelligence. But the word super is the best word of all and it's the simplest.”
Trump, who had teased the new term at the United Nations General Assembly last week, was speaking at the launch of America.gov, a new website being touted as an AI-powered one-stop-shop to access federal services and information.
“This kind of innovation in government is just a preview of what is possible with super intelligence, or SI, and that's the official name in the United States,” Trump said as he unveiled the new website at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. “I'll be signing a very powerful executive order.”
Contributing: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY
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