On Tuesday, executives for Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia all signed “The White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which was announced following a luncheon held by President Donald Trump.
\n\nThe effort was an act of “tremendous self-regulation,” as Trump put it, but the agreement is not the sweeping AI regulation that people inside the companies themselves have been asking for. And while failing to honor these public commitments could count as illegally lying to consumers, even that wouldn’t be enough to trigger massive reforms.
\n\nThe statement says that companies “should implement” several things: First, they should ensure they have “robust internal controls” to monitor their models’ capabilities and ability to not go rogue or hack things in unintended ways. Second, they should “empower” an internal team to do that work (and remediate when things go wrong). Third, it encourages them to partner with an external monitor who is “empowered” to do independent assessments to make sure that all of that work is happening. And finally, they should make sure their board of directors has set up a committee to receive reports about all of these efforts.
\n\nThe voluntary commitments are some indication that the frontier labs are making…
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