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Trump floats AI watchdog panel — staffed with the tech titans it would watch

September 30, 2026 | | Print Article

Following a White House summit on the rebranded “Super Intelligence,” the president responded to calls for regulations while slamming Democrat opposition to “this tremendous surge of growth.”

Tuesday, President Donald Trump welcomed leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, XAI, and other tech companies for a luncheon amid growing — and heavily partisan — calls for artificial intelligence to become the latest victim of swamp bureaucracy. A press gaggle afterward found him touting “tremendous self-policing” over government involvement while also taking a swing at the left for taking a position they view as “bad for Republicans.”

Asked if anything during the meeting changed his mind on slowing the advancement of “Super Intelligence” or implementing guardrails, the chief executive expressed, “Well, I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police. And it’s very hard for somebody to come outside, get into these models — these models are very complex — and again, I believe they’re gonna be used for the good. And when they’re not, we’re gonna be able to nab ’em.”

“There’s going to be a tremendous self-policing aspect. We’re also thinking about forming a committee of sorts … so the committee can watch over the whole enterprise,” he went on.

Toward that end, Trump released the “White House Accord on Super Intelligence,” which included a “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” that he signed along with industry leaders Dario Amodei, Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg.

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The document detailed that “participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems” while outlining “four layers of controls and audits.”

They included internal controls to prevent undesired access to technical systems, internal oversight of operations, independent evaluations from an external auditor, and oversight of each by an independent committee.

“Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations,” added the commitment. “Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone, and each of our companies are committed to doing this.”

Meanwhile, figures on the left like former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Kamala Harris and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had adopted crisis language in calling for immediate action on the emerging technology, “putting in place guardrails to protect the American people from bad actors and bad behavior and, God forbid, damage that can be done to the American people.”

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As some suspected foreign influence and others speculated on aims to see smaller companies effectively regulated out of competition, the president adopted a blanket America Last criticism of Democrats as he told reporters, “… they don’t want to see it be successful because they think that’s bad for Republicans. So they don’t want to see this tremendous surge of growth.”

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