Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations

US president Donald Trump has convinced six leading AI companies to sign up for non-binding and vague regulation called the “White House Accord on Superintelligence” that doesn’t require them to do anything but does let them set their own rules. Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, and XAI signed the document, which appeared …

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Compared to Der Pumpkin Fuhrer, even a root vegetable is a "super intelligence!"

[Paul Herber]

What do the Swedes think of this?

[Bebu sa Ware]

What do the Swedes think of this?

Swede might be lost on the left pondian readership although their term would describe their Kürbis-Anführer bag rooter.

An acquired taste but mashed with butter and seasoned with freshly ground black peppers not too shabby — beats brussels sprouts any day.

[Jedit]

"beats brussels sprouts any day"

So does being repeatedly kicked in the nuts. It's not exactly a high bar to clear.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: What do the Swedes think of this?

... not too shabby — beats brussels sprouts any day.

No, not too shabby.

But brussel sprouts are (IMO) much better, particularly when steamed crisp and paired with a properly made, dijon based (Amora Fine et Forte) vinaigrette.

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[BartyFartsLast]

Re: What do the Swedes think of this?

I quite like them stirfried but they're also good in a curry.

[BartyFartsLast]

Re: What do the Swedes think of this?

Ooh that's a tricky decision, I love both Brussel sprouts and swede

[jake]

The four are:

Proof that the current office of the president is into brown-nosing billionaires,

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: The four are:

Nice, but not as lucrative as getting brown envelopes

[Dan 55]

What we really want to know

Did sleepy Donnie Trump make it all the way through the bigly strong tremendous announcement without falling asleep?

[Charlie Clark]

Re: What we really want to know

Sort of, Speaker of the House that he sent into early recess before the elections to avoid embarrassing votes, Mike Johnson, made the statement surrounded by the billionaire tech bros. Trumpty Dumpty didn't like the idea of being upstaged and barged in afterwards and mumbled a few things before banging on about his decision to call artificial intelligence superintelligence, which was obviously the most important thing from his view. Think of the drunken uncle at a party…

[Anonymous Coward]

"Think of the drunken uncle at a party…"

Complete with the crying "nieces".

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: What we really want to know

Mike "Elmer Fudd" Johnson is am embarassment to the role.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: What we really want to know

I was expecting him to be gone within a year of his appointment, but we've both misunderstood what his role is: Trumpty's agent in Congress whose job is to pass laws Trumpty wants and prevent those he doesn't like. Twice at least he's used procedural means to keep the House from sitting to prevent votes from being held, most recently votes on impeaching Pete Pisshead, Secretary of Hair, and a new discharge petition on the Trump-Epstein files.

[DS999]

Re: What we really want to know

No, there was video of him sleeping multiple times while he had them in the oval office. Unless his defenders want us to believe having his head hanging down both centered and to the side at various times with his eyes closed was him "listening". Despite never "listening" like that in his entire first term.

[Yes Me]

Triumph

"non-binding and vague regulation"

Ideal, perfect, quite wonderful! Exactly what industries like, say, Big Tobacco have always dreamt of. A new triumph of capitalism.

We are indeed all doomed, but I guess we knew that.

[Aladdin Sane]

Re: Triumph

We're all toasted.

[KittenHuffer]

Re: Triumph

Talkie Toaster:

I have a question. A sensible question. A question that will test the limits of your new IQ and stretch the sinews of your knowledge to bursting point!

Holly:

This is gonna be about waffles, isn't it?

Talkie Toaster (sounding hurt, as it's been caught out):

Certainly not. And I resent the implication that I'm a one-dimensional bread-obsessed electrical appliance!

Holly:

I apologise, Toaster, what's the question?

Talkie Toaster:

The question is this: given that God is infinite, and that the Universe is also infinite...would you like a toasted teacake?

[that one in the corner]

How dare you imply this might be be wasteful behaviour

I'll have you know that every time a renaming occurs in the US Government, ALL of the reprinted headed paper is coming from the bestest supplier around, TrumPrint Inc, using Donny's very own personal 5% family discount coupon. AND he always spends the loyalty points on new goldie-coloured gewgaws to improve the Oval Office* and thus the morale of the US of A.

* all gewgaws to be ripped from the walls and installed into the Presidential Library when, if, his term ends; after all, what do you *think* he's going to put in there? Books he's read? Books he's written (all by himself)?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How dare you imply this might be be wasteful behaviour

I hear the White House library now has a section for colouring books.

I gather one or two are even filled in without smudging over the lines.

[You aint sin me, roit]

Re: How dare you imply this might be be wasteful behaviour

Those would be Natalie's.

[Cruachan]

Re: How dare you imply this might be be wasteful behaviour

Typos referring to him as the President of the "Unites States" on the document as well, amusingly

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/donald-trump-s-truly-stupid-spelling-mistake-on-superintelligence-community-letter/ar-AA2dgIeh

[KarMann]

Re: How dare you imply this might be be wasteful behaviour

A lot of people don't know there's an 's' in 'United'.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How dare you imply this might be be wasteful behaviour

There's only room for one 'D' in Murika, and that's the Big D hisself.

He done tried keeping all the 'T's as well but got confuzed'n'angry 'cos everybody thought he'd tried to write "Seas".

[KarMann]

Re: How dare you imply this might be be wasteful behaviour

Is that 'Seas' or 'Sees'? Asking for a friend.

[Paratiritis]

Change of definition

Until now a superintelligence has been defined as an agent that possesses intelligence surpassing that of the most gifted human minds. All the president has done is to re-define it as an agent that possesses intelligence surpassing that of himself. Therefore, according to this new definition, we already reached superintelligence quite a long time ago.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Change of definition

"I Therefore, according to this new definition, we already reached superintelligence quite a long time ago"

So long as that new definition is based on an XP PC with no RAM, no processor, a failed power supply and the power inlet filled with hot glue.

[DS999]

Re: Change of definition

His definition is "is it smarter than me" and since he has a 73 IQ that threshold was met a while ago.

[cyberdemon]

Re: Change of definition

He already believes (apparently) that he's the smartest (High IQ!) President that ever lived. But AManFromMars1 is smarter than he is, therefore AMFM1 must be Superintelligent.

[PB90210]

Re: Change of definition

Big problem, the security community already use SI for 'special intelligence', intelligence possibly gathered by dubious methods... ah, OK, just like AI

[blu3b3rry]

President Cheeto seems rather awed by AI

Does his melted brain think it's some kind of god?

Or is he a massive fan just because of the weird sycophantic way LLM's tend to interact with people?

That's before we even get onto the bizarre AI-generated images of the Cheeto as some kind of muscle-bound Jesus figure, presumably all the photos and videos shown by various media outlets of a very overweight, infirm and elderly man are fakes produced by the Deep State or something.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: President Cheeto seems rather awed by AI

He smells the opportunity for another hustle to enrich himself and his family.

[heyrick]

Re: President Cheeto seems rather awed by AI

"Or is he a massive fan just because of the weird sycophantic way LLM's tend to interact with people?"

Hmmm, didn't South Park absolutely savage that aspect of AIs?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, the Great Orange Pillock has missed a chance there. If aggressive and binding legislation had been put in place, he could have made a fortune from brown envelopes and conveniently looking the other way from time to time.

"Nice model you've got there. Be a shame if someone realised it was illegal, wouldn't it?"

[Aladdin Sane]

Tethics

Instead of tangible commitments, it'll just be "best endeavours".

[Charlie Clark]

Re: Tethics

… whenever anyone's looking.

[You aint sin me, roit]

Re: Tethics

And "in areas like ..."

[Musk heaves a sigh of relief, no mention of CSAM or nudification apps]

[trevorde]

Executive Order

Super Intelligence will now be known as American Intelligence to reflect our great country's covfefe

Donald J Trump

President of USA

[Cruachan]

The only positive I can spin from this is that at least Mango Mussolini didn't try to name it after himself like he does with everything else.

His obsession with telling everyone his IQ is high is also very telling, everyone I've ever met who talks about how intelligent they are is utterly unable to back it up, they just say they're right and try and change the subject if you ask any questions.

[Rich 11]

Trump can't even spell IQ.

[Porco Rosso]

Where did the old gods go?

No heads of Intel, IBM, Oracle—and yes, even Apple—to be seen. A good thing or a sign?

For Intel, absolutely a sign.

[Dinanziame]

Re: Where did the old gods go?

I'm more surprised by the absence of Microsoft than Apple. Microsoft is primarily a software company, and is definitely trying to push its AI products everywhere it can. Apple on the other side has always treated its software as merely an extension of its main business, which is hardware.

[Porco Rosso]

Re: Where did the old gods go?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella attended the White House artificial intelligence lunch

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/politics/trump-ai-luncheon-guests-ceos.html

[Anonymous Coward]

planned from the offset

Not a fan of the orangutan dictator ruling the US (World) like a king, but the criticism means little while he still has the following, money and influence.

His base: Despite falling popularity, millions still believe and vote for him. Most people lose faith in leaders after what he has done but some of his voters are hard liners and doesn't matter what , still think he's worth voting for.

His wealth: His estimated net worth has reportedly risen to around $7bn, roughly double what it was when he first entered office, with crypto playing a significant role. This what we know about, very likely to be more than this.

The Trump machine: The family has spread its interests across politics, investments, real estate, AI, defence, technology, media and crypto.

As dumb as people may think Trump is, he’s clearly managed to do some things very effectively. And when he eventually leaves office, the Trump name, wealth and network will still be there.

[wobball]

Re: planned from the offset

Some of this may be true but his name will be surprisingly absent from the USA post this term 'cos you don't openly keep bringing up your own worst mistake, do you?

[Aladdin Sane]

Re: planned from the offset

They celebrate Independence Day every year, so they do have form.

[jake]

Re: planned from the offset

From our perspective we broke free of the chains of a world-girdling empire.

Perspective, man, perspective.

_{Yes, I know, some people voted to chain us up again. We're working on it. This thing ain't over.}

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: planned from the offset

...millions still believe and vote for him.

Yes.

A good part of the problem is indeed the millions that still vote for the moron.

But most important is the backing of countless billions of dollars that enable him to get elected.

All this with the complicity of most of the GOP.

... some of his voters are hard liners ...

Utter ignorance, lack of knowledge and reading skills / basic critical thinking among most if not all of his voter base is deep rooted.

Something that was finally achieved by the constant dumbing down of the education system in the US, something that will take four or more generations to reverse, if ever.

... he’s clearly managed to do some things very effectively.

Indeed ...

Managed to finally force the US democracy into a sea decrepitude, societal/moral decay and irreparable decline.

As a result, the world today is in very (very) deep shit.

.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: planned from the offset

"As dumb as people may think Trump is, he’s clearly managed to do some things very effectively."

The only thing Trump has done is convince racists, fascists, the gullible and brain-washed, that he's their guy, the god they have to vote for, the one they must loyally stand behind.

Anyone can do it. You just need to be a big enough cunt to choose to do it.

Knowing he would have a big enough following to make a profitable success of it is the only thing Trump can be credited for.

[jake]

Re: planned from the offset

Base: adj., Of low value and having inferior properties.

[jake]

Re: planned from the offset

The one thing that trump has ever been good at is manipulating people to buy into his cult of personality. Once he's out of the loop, the entire cult will evaporate.

What, you don't really think his useless sons, or any of the milquetoasts (vance, kegsbreath, johnson, need I go on?) will be able to pick up the pieces and carry on, in whole or in part? Don't make me laugh, not a one of the candidates could possibly command that particular group.

When the cult leader is out of the limelight, the cult will wither.

[Tron]

So many widely hated people in one room at the same time...

Every time we call it AI, we are sticking two fingers up at the orange goblin.

Every time we decline to use it, and so decline to pay for it, we are hammering a nail into AI's coffin, and bringing the day the bubble bursts a little closer.

[FIA]

The document leaves open the possibility that one day “it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.”

You have both of these things.

Use them.

[Anonymous Coward]

We could do with some intelligence in the current white house.

[jake]

That's going to probably take a couple more years.

I say probably because the American Great Unwashed may surprise us in the midterms. A hard-core Republican neighbor of mine, former MAGA-hat wearer, told me he's never voting for the GOP ever again ... why not, you might ask? Because around here the cheapest he can find diesel is $8.49/gallon ... and knows exactly what that will do to the cost of EVERYTHING over the winter.