Trump and top AI leaders sign voluntary frontier pledge as document misspells 'United States'

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, President Donald Trump hosted top AI executives at the White House, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, to sign a voluntary pledge called the “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.” The pledge sets out expectations for companies that train and deploy frontier models, including ensuring technology behaves as intended, promptly identifying and resolving issues, establishing independent board oversight, and implementing internal controls. It is voluntary and does not appear to carry legal or regulatory consequences for signatories who breach it.

After the meeting, Trump shared a photo of the signed document on Truth Social. In the photo, “United States” is misspelled as “Unites States” directly beneath the president’s signature; the names of the other signatories and their companies are spelled correctly. Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak was among the first to flag the error. The White House had not publicly commented at the time of writing.

The pledge came weeks after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amodei, and Elon Musk called for a deceleration of AI development, a call that Trump and Huang had rejected. Trump has previously said, “Whoever wins AI, wins.” Zuckerberg described the meeting as “sort of a historic conversation” and called the accord “a start” that the “whole industry could come to.” In a separate executive order, Trump also directed federal departments and agencies to change their terminology from “artificial intelligence” to “superintelligence” or “SI.”