US President Donald Trump meets AI giants: From self regulation pact to new name for AI, here are 3 key takeaways
Follow UsUS President Donald Trump met several of the biggest names in the technology industry at the White House on Tuesday.
The meeting brought together leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta, Google and other companies.
The summit came amid growing debate over the risks linked to AI.
US President Donald Trump met several of the biggest names in the technology industry at the White House on Tuesday. The meeting brought together leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta, Google and other companies. The summit came amid growing debate over the risks linked to AI. Some technology leaders and experts have called for stronger rules and a slower pace of AI development. Here are three key takeaways from Trump’s tech summit.
SurveyAI self-regulation pact
Trump said the technology companies had signed a “morally binding” agreement focused on AI safety, reports BBC. He described the document as a “form of protection” against potential risks from AI.
Under the agreement, companies will be responsible for the safety of their own AI systems. They will also put safeguards in place to ensure their models work as intended. Also, the firms have agreed to identify and fix problems quickly.
The companies will also work with “independent auditors” to check their AI systems and ensure their platforms do not “hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.”
Trump said the agreement was “almost like a constitution, in a way,” adding that “the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president.”
He also said he would create a board to oversee AI safety, but did not reveal who would be part of it.
More AI data centres
Trump also reiterated his support for expanding data centres. These facilities provide the computing power needed to run AI systems. However, data centre projects have faced backlash over concerns about electricity use and their impact on local communities. Trump said technology companies would make “massive contributions to communities” to address such concerns.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also backed the expansion, according to the report. He said data centres should be called “super intelligence factories” and argued that they are “reindustrialising the United States” and creating jobs.
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AI gets a new name: Super Intelligence
Trump also signed an executive order asking US government departments to use “SI” and “Super Intelligence” instead of artificial intelligence in official communications.
Trump had previously criticised the word “artificial”, saying it made the technology “sound fake”.
However, some experts believe the term may not become widely used in the technology industry. They noted that superintelligence is generally used to describe AI systems that are more advanced than current technology.
