Trump Executive Order Renames 'AI' as 'Super Intelligence'
Is this industry-led AI safety pact real accountability that keeps America ahead or self-written rules with hand-picked auditors?
Above: Donald Trump and AI executives in the White House East Room on Sept. 29. Image credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-industry narrative
Getting every major American lab to accept responsibility for safe development, with real internal controls and outside audits, beats endlessly waiting on some global treaty that would never arrive. This buildout is powering an industrial boom bigger than the railroads and the grid combined, and American workers are the ones cashing in.
Industry-critical narrative
A voluntary accord written by the very companies it governs is just a polite way of saying no rules and no public voice. Calling the reviewers independent means little when the auditors are hand-picked partners already doing business with the labs. All the tough talk about slowing down vanished the moment the cameras came out.
