Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States

It seems the meet-in-the-middle was this pledge, which mapped out the ways that companies training and deploying frontier models should “ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved.” This includes tapping an independent board for oversight and implementing internal controls. The pledge is voluntary, and there don’t seem to be any legal or regulatory ramifications if any signee breaks it. 

At a press conference after the gathering Tuesday, Zuckerberg called the accord a “start” that the “whole industry could come to,” adding that “it was sort of a historic conversation.”

Via an executive order, the President is also mandating that all government departments and agencies now change their phrasing from “artificial intelligence” to “superintelligence” or “SI.”