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Trump and six AI firms sign voluntary Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities

Illustration on a cream parchment background. Across the center, a one-page commitment sheet shows six blank signature lines under an oval brass stamp reading "JOINT COMMITMENT." To the right, a vertical four-layer stack is labeled INTERNAL CONTROLS, INTERNAL TEAM, EXTERNAL AUDITOR, and BOARD COMMITTEE, with a chip reading "COMPANY CHOOSES AUDITOR" near the auditor layer. A muted-crimson "VOLUNTARY" wafer sits above the stack, and a dark ribbon below reads "NO PENALTY / NO DEADLINE / MORALLY BINDING." Lower corners read "FRONTIER RESPONSIBILITIES" and "SELF-POLICE."

President Donald Trump and six frontier AI company leaders signed a voluntary one-page Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities after a White House tech lunch on Tuesday, and Trump posted the signed document to Truth Social late that night, according to Associated Press reporting carried by NPR and Euronews.

The accord was signed by Trump, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk of xAI, which is now part of SpaceX, AP reported. Al Jazeera identifies the document as the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.

Under the pact, the companies pledge robust internal controls to monitor advanced models, including cyberattack and biological or chemical risks, CoinDesk reported. An internal team is supposed to ensure those controls operate and that problems are fixed. Firms also pledge to partner with an independent external auditor and to establish a board committee to evaluate auditor reports. Al Jazeera reported a pledge to meet regularly on standards. The document says that over time it may make sense to codify the steps into laws and regulations.

The agreement has no enforcement mechanism, disclosure requirement, or implementation deadline, CoinDesk reported, and companies choose their own auditors. Trump called the accord "morally binding" and said he was seeing "tremendous self-policing." He suggested about 10 people would watch over the enterprise and said he would name someone to oversee the agreement in coming days, according to AP via NPR. Amodei said, "The technology has very real risks," and that how those risks are addressed "is still under discussion."

AI Tech Daily's earlier brief covered Trump's post-lunch rejection of new federal AI safety laws and his self-regulation remarks. The overnight wires add the signed document and its control stack. Same-day context includes the America.gov AI portal launch. The voluntary path contrasts with Bill Gates's recent call for AI safeguards legislation.

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