The White House AI lunch ends with a voluntary safety accord and an executive order renaming AI “Super Intelligence”
The executives agreed four self-policing commitments that Trump calls “morally” binding. The only thing on the government's own record is an order telling agencies to write “SI” instead of “AI”.
Why it matters: This is the industry's first collective safety pledge made with the White House, and it is voluntary and unpublished by the government, while the one binding act of the day renames the technology. The same afternoon a mandatory safety-board bill was blocked in the Senate, so the split between pledges and law is now on the record.
The White House lunch previewed here yesterday produced two things on Tuesday 29 September: a voluntary pledge from the chief executives in the room, and a presidential executive order that is on the White House's own website.
The order, titled “Inaugurating The Era of Super Intelligence”, directs federal departments and agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory documents. Within 60 days, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology must propose legislative language for a federal definition. The White House fact sheet presents it as that renaming and does not mention the executives' pledge.