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

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and top AI executives signed a voluntary AI safety pledge, but a photo of it posted to Truth Social misspelled "United States" as "Unites States," TechCrunch reported. The error appeared directly beneath Trump's own signature, while every other signatory's name and company was spelled correctly, according to TechCrunch. Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak was among the first to flag the mistake. TechCrunch said it had reached out to the White House for comment.

The pledge was signed by Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google and Nvidia, Semafor reported. TechCrunch said the document was titled a "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities," while Semafor reported Trump released it as the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence." Business Insider reported the pact, described by sources as "morally binding," came out of a White House lunch Tuesday that included Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and more than a dozen tech executives.

The agreement commits signatories to implement robust internal controls to monitor AI models, bring in outside auditors, and set up independent committees to review audit findings, Business Insider reported. The pledge is voluntary, and Business Insider said it is unclear what consequences, if any, companies would face for falling short of it. The outlet reported that some Democrats and safety advocates have already called the accord unenforceable because it rests on mutual agreement rather than binding rules.

Zuckerberg called the accord "good steps forward," according to Semafor. Outside the White House on Tuesday he told reporters, "it is that this is a start and an accord that the whole industry could come to," as quoted by both Semafor and Business Insider. TechCrunch separately quoted Zuckerberg calling the gathering "sort of a historic conversation."

Semafor and Business Insider both reported that the idea began at a state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping the previous week, when Zuckerberg raised AI regulatory concerns with Johnson. He then spoke with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who helped line up support for a set of principles among executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other firms, Semafor reported. Zuckerberg circulated a draft of the pact ahead of Tuesday's meeting, according to Semafor.

The accord followed public calls weeks earlier by OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Elon Musk for a slowdown in AI development, calls that Trump and Huang rejected, TechCrunch reported. Trump has previously said, "We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins," according to TechCrunch. In a Truth Social post this month cited by Business Insider, Trump wrote, "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades."

Alongside the pledge, Trump also signed an executive order telling federal departments and agencies to swap the phrase "artificial intelligence" for "superintelligence" or "SI," TechCrunch reported. Meta declined to comment for Business Insider's story, and Nvidia and the White House did not immediately respond to its requests for comment. Semafor reported that Meta also did not comment for its story and that the White House did not return its request for comment.