TRUMP JUST GOT EVERY MAJOR AI CEO TO SIGN A PROMISE TO POLICE THEMSELVES. HE CALLS IT "MORALLY BINDING"
yesterday at the white house: musk, zuckerberg, huang, amodei, pichai and brockman signed the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence"
one page. four commitments:
internal controls on cyber, bio and chemical risks
internal teams to check the controls work
independent outside auditors
board committees to review the reports
penalties if they break it: none. its voluntary
trump: "It's almost like a constitution, in a way"
"I think it's morally binding"
6 days earlier bernie sanders filed a bill with up to 20 years in prison for building superintelligence. this week we got a signed promise
to be fair, outside auditors and board level oversight are real steps. its more than most of crypto ever agreed to
but i've heard "we have independent auditors" before
FTX had outside auditors. two firms. both signed off on its books. it still went to zero
the scariest part isnt that the accord is weak. its that the auditors get hired by the same companies theyre supposed to check
personally, crypto taught me one thing about self regulation. it works right up until the first quarter where it costs money
so which lab quietly misses a commitment first, and would we even find out?
President Trump touted a "morally binding" agreement with AI executives to "self-police" and floated a “committee” of roughly 10 people to help “watch over the whole enterprise”