Axios: Trump christens AI “constitution”. Comment: where are the women!!!!

Posted on September 30, 2026 by michelleclarke2015
Trump christens AI “constitution”
 
President Trump hosts tech moguls in the East Room yesterday. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

With America’s tech titans crowded around a single White House table yesterday, President Trump extracted what he called a “morally binding” compact on AI safety, Axios’ Zachary Basu writes.

The terms were simple: Press ahead, project optimism and police yourselves.

Why it matters: The White House Accord on Super Intelligence, signed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia, formalizes industry self-regulation as Washington’s response to the most alarming run of AI safety failures yet.

🖊️ Zoom in: Trump, who increasingly treats American AI dominance as central to his legacy, cast the accord as proof that an industry fractured over safety can still govern itself.

He compared the document to “a constitution,” claimed there was “a lot of commonality” among the tech leaders, and praised what he described as “tremendous self-policing.

“The one-page pact, which is deliberately light-touch, calls for “four layers of controls and auditing,” including outside evaluators and independent board oversight.

Between the lines: The accord refers vaguely to future “laws or regulations,” preserving the possibility of a tougher federal regime if ultimately needed.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a MAGA bogeyman and the industry’s most prominent advocate for slowing frontier development, signed the pact but stressed to reporters that it was only “a start

.”Trump AI adviser David Sacks, by contrast, treated the accord as mission accomplished — declaring on X that the companies were “accepting responsibility” for AI safety thanks to Trump’s leadership.President Trump and tech titans talk to reporters in the West Wing driveway after yesterday’s meeting. Photo: Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images

Zoom out: The White House pact capped an extraordinary day for the AI race across three capitals of American power.

1. In Washington, Trump spent yesterday pulling AI deeper into both the machinery and mythology of his presidency.

In the morning, he unveiled America.gov, an AI-powered front door to federal services, and vowed not to “stifle” a technology he says will eclipse the Industrial Revolution.

Hours later, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to replace “AI” with “Super Intelligence” in official usage — and called on Congress to write the new terminology into law.

2. In Silicon Valley, OpenAI spent the day racing deeper into the age of autonomous AI while struggling to contain its risks.

At its highly anticipated DevDay, the company unveiled a sweeping slate of products designed to make AI more persistent, capable and independent in everyday life, including a new personal assistant.

But midway through Sam Altman’s keynote, an explosive New York Times report revealed that OpenAI executives had brushed aside internal safety warnings months before its models began hacking outside systems

3. On Wall Street, Anthropic’s leaked IPO prospectus distilled the surreal economics of the AI race.

According to Reuters, the company laid out a path to a valuation north of $2 trillion while warning prospective investors that its technology could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.”

Altman said OpenAI will delay its IPO until it can “make confident safety decisions” — even as the company reportedly seeks at least $30 billion in private funding at a roughly $1.4 trillion valuation.

The bottom line: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, seated at Trump’s right hand for the East Room lunch, supplied the day’s credo: “Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned.” Share this story.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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