President Trump and House Speaker Johnson Meet with AI Leaders at White House, Announce Self-Policing Accord
Leaders of prominent artificial intelligence companies convened at the White House for a lunch meeting with President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson. The meeting, held on September 29, 2026, addressed growing concerns about the rapid advancements in AI technology. Following the discussions, President Trump announced that the tech leaders had signed a "constitution" to self-police the industry. House Speaker Johnson clarified that this accord, titled "The White House Accord on Superintelligence: A Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities," is a voluntary statement of principles and commitments from the industry, emphasizing robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review. Attendees included Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang from Nvidia, Palantir's Alex Karp and Shyam Sankar, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Greg Brockman from OpenAI. President Trump described the agreement as "morally binding" and indicated the p...