“President of the United States”: White House AI deal includes spelling mistake | Donald Trump

The White House misspelled “United States” under Donald Trump’s signature in an agreement he signed Tuesday with Amnesty International leaders.

At the bottom of the agreement on “Super Intelligence,” the term Trump used to rebrand artificial intelligence, the president’s signature read “President of the United States.”

It’s unclear how the misspelling occurred or whether it will appear in the Federal Register, the database that contains official presidential acts and other government documents.

Trump and six technology executives signed the document in which they voluntarily committed to developing AI safely to address widespread concerns, sparked by industry executives who warned that the technology was evolving too quickly to control.

Trump has largely dismissed concerns about AI’s harmful effects on humans and called on companies to continue developing the technology so the United States can become the world leader in AI. Even as he signed the security deal, the US president praised business leaders for their growth.

Trump posted the document containing the misspelling to Truth Social, and the White House communications team emailed it shortly after he signed it.

Bloomberg News correspondent David Gura appears to have been the first to notice the spelling error.

The Guardian has requested comment from the White House

The AI ​​deal sets out four levels of “checks and audits” that companies will implement to ensure AI capabilities work as intended. This includes “robust” internal controls and partnering with an “independent external auditor or evaluator.”

Potential internal controls could include empowering a team to monitor and detect that AI is working properly and creating monitors to ensure AI technologies will not hack or access technical systems when it comes to cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats.

External monitors would also verify that the AI ​​is working as intended, and companies could appoint a board committee to oversee reports from teams operating the AI ​​controls.

The agreement is the first step in addressing concerns raised by industry experts in mid-September.

Americans are increasingly skeptical of AI. A recent New York Times/Siena College poll found that 61% of voters opposed building data centers, while an SSRS/CNN poll found that 71% of Americans thought the government was not doing enough to regulate the growth and development of AI.

Even though Tuesday’s document is just an agreement, it leaves open the possibility of codifying the framework into formal regulations or laws — something Trump has repeatedly rejected.

“I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday. “And they understand that they need to self-monitor.”

The six executives who signed the agreement are Dario Amodei of Anthropic; Elon Musk of SpaceXAI; Greg Brockman of OpenAI; Jensen Huang of Nvidia; Mark Zuckerberg of Meta; and Sundar Pichai of Google.