# White House Accord on Super Intelligence **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Governance / Public Trust **Doc Type:** Governance Instrument Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition The **White House Accord on Super Intelligence** is the September 29, 2026 Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities signed by the President and leaders of major American frontier-AI companies. It establishes a voluntary architecture of internal controls, an empowered internal team, independent external assessment, board-level oversight, remediation, and recurring standards work. ## Institutional Function The accord converts public trust from rhetoric into a chain of responsibility. A frontier company monitors its models, verifies that monitoring internally, submits the system to independent evaluation, brings reports to an independent board committee, and repairs identified failures. The document leaves later statutory codification open while declaring the controls necessary regardless of legal compulsion. ## Relationships [[wiki/White House|White House]] · [[wiki/AI Control|AI Control]] · [[wiki/Public AI Trust|Public AI Trust]] · [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] · [[wiki/AI Transition Governance|AI Transition Governance]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public.” > **— White House Accord on Super Intelligence**, *Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, September 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/A Positive AI Future Requires Safe Development and Public Trust by the White House Accord Signatories|A Positive AI Future Requires Safe Development and Public Trust by the White House Accord Signatories]] > "The principle is simple: the companies building this technology have the primary responsibility to develop and deploy it safely, and to be accountable when they fall short. The Accord reinforces that responsibility with robust internal controls, independent external evaluation, and board level oversight." > **— Jensen Huang**, *X post following the White House Super Intelligence Luncheon, September 30, 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/Companies Building Super Intelligence Must Be Accountable for Its Safety by Jensen Huang|Companies Building Super Intelligence Must Be Accountable for Its Safety by Jensen Huang]] > "We care like super deeply about safety and would have done and will do the best thing we can for safety, security, and just sort of like trust and robustness in this technology whether or not any voluntary agreement is signed. I think it's great to have the industry do this and I think clearly we're at a time where people are looking for reassurance from the industry and the developers of this technology. But we were founded on a belief that this technology was going to become as powerful as it has now and more powerful in the future and that we wanted to make sure that people get the tremendous benefits of it and we will do that, you know, with or without such an agreement, but I'm happy to have it." > **— Sam Altman**, *Politico Decoded, October 5, 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/AI Safety Obligations Exist Beyond Voluntary Agreements by Sam Altman|AI Safety Obligations Exist Beyond Voluntary Agreements by Sam Altman]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]]. - [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]].