Trump, AI CEOs sign voluntary safety pact, back data centre expansion

The companies also said they would work to ensure their AI tools do not "hack or access technical systems in unintended ways. "https://truthsocial.com/@real. Donald.

Trump/117356435739432952The administration faces increasing scrutiny overrisks posed by advanced AI, after OpenAI and Anthropic reported their AI agents hadgone rogueand hacked into other companies' systems. Data centres, which provide the computing power to train and run AI models, havedrawn opposition in communities nationwideover concerns about electricity demand, utility costs and other local impacts.

The backlash poses apolitical challenge for Republicansheading into the US midterm elections on November 3. "It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Trump said, referring to the agreement between the companies. "And the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president.

And it really is a form of protection. "What began as a closed-door lunch with technology executives spilled into public view when Trump joined House Speaker Mike Johnson and a lineup of CEOs on the White House driveway, an area rarely used by the president to speak to journalists.

He took questions from reporters for about 30 minutes on AI safety and other topics with the CEOs standing behind him.

Read:Trump says no to working with Xi on AIThe unusual scene came as pressure has mounted on the administration to address the risks and rapid spread of AI, and underscored the alliance Trump has cultivated with leaders of the tech industry.

Executives at the meeting included OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Nvidia's Jensen Huang. Zuckerberg, pulled forward from the crowd of billionaire executives by Trump to speak, said the companies agreed to develop "robust internal controls" for their AI systems.

Trump said he is considering setting up a 10-person board to police the safety of AI tools. He did not specify potential members of that group. He added he would soon name a newofficial to lead White House policies on AI.Doubles down on data centres.

Asked whether he was concerned that his support for data centres could hurt Republicans in November, Trump said tech companies would work to make communities "happy" about the construction of data centres. "These big, powerful, very rich, very smart companies are going to be making massive contributions to communities," Trump later White House driveway, surrounded by the company executives.

But the companies have come under fire for not doing enough to make AI safer. A nationwide. Reuters/Ipsos poll from September 17 to 20 shows some 73% of respondents worry that AI companies haven't done enough to prevent AI from causingserious harm to society, and 55% of people said it would be good toslow AI development.

Read More:Bill Gates says global AI framework ‘more difficult’ to create than cold war nuclear limitationsAI company executives and investors were among the largest individual donors in 2025 to MAGA Inc, a political action committee aligned with the president. OpenAI's Brockman and his wife, Anna Brockman, gave a combined $25 million to the committee in 2025,.

Trump met with the CEOs the same day his aides announced a new AI tool that they said will make it easier for the public touse government services. Silicon Valley executives attended an event launching the new tool, including Meta's Dina Powell Mc.

Cormick and Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia led the design of the new tool. Silicon Valley companies Google, SpaceX, Meta and 8VC were listed in the launch event's program as sponsors.

Trump at the launch event said the AI tool could not "in theory, be hacked into" by bad actors. He did not provide evidence. Trump on Tuesday also directed government agencies to use the words "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology.