At A.I. Event, Trump Asks Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft to Make Safety Decisions Themselves - The New York Times

President Trump met with technology leaders at an A.I. event and asked Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft to make safety decisions themselves, according to a report in The New York Times. The meetings did not result in a commitment to formal regulation. Instead, the companies signed a voluntary agreement to adopt safety policies, the report said.

The safety policies described in the report include risk reviews, auditing and evaluations of systems by third parties. The companies also agreed to adopt Mr. Trump's preferred rebranding of A.I. as 'super intelligence,' according to the report. Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft are the three companies named in the account of the event and of the agreement signed there.

The report presents the agreement as an alternative to formal regulation: rather than committing to binding rules, the three companies agreed to adopt policies that include reviewing risks, conducting audits and having their systems evaluated by third parties. The article does not specify which third parties would conduct the evaluations, what standards the audits would follow, or whether the commitments carry a deadline, a reporting requirement or any penalty for non-compliance. It does not state when the agreement was signed or where the event took place, nor how the voluntary arrangement relates to existing law. The rebranding of A.I. as 'super intelligence' is described as Mr. Trump's preferred terminology, which the companies agreed to adopt.