Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

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Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge?

Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge?

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he’s renamed the technology to “Super Intelligence.” He brushed off concerns that the government wasn’t enforcing enough AI guardrails because US companies are “dominating China.”

And instead of ushering in federal AI regulations, Trump now has “the smartest people in the world watching over each other.”

The people in question here are Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, XAI’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. These tech leaders have signed the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities: a “morally binding” safety pledge that requires their companies to self-regulate their own AI technology with common sense guidelines and, seemingly, no ramifications for violating the agreement.

All six of the signees provided press commentary at Trump’s behest, praising the self-policing plans as a positive step towards advancing AI technology, creating jobs, and dispersing negative public opinion around AI safety. You can check out a 30-minute video of the Q&A here, or read the key statements from each exec below:

“I can kind of summarize what I think we all signed today, which is the White House accord on developing this technology safely. The basic idea is that we want to give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way we intend[...]”

“The idea isn’t that this is the only