White House Superintelligence Accord

The September 2026 industry pledge on frontier AI controls, and what followed.

Six CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29, 2026, committing to four control layers inside their companies. The 300-word accord sets no penalties, deadlines or audit publication, and no signer has named an auditor or board committee since.

Four control layers in the White House Accord: Internal controls, Monitoring; Dedicated controls team, Red teaming; External audit, Third-party audits; Board oversight, Accountability FOUR CONTROL LAYERS, EACH SIGNER BUILDS INTERNALLY 4Board oversightINDEPENDENT BOARD COMMITTEE REVIEWS TEAMS AND AUDITORS 3External auditINDEPENDENT AUDITOR ASSESSES THE CONTROLS 2Dedicated controls teamCHECK THAT CONTROLS WORK AND FIX PROBLEMS 1Internal controlsMONITOR CAPABILITIES AND ALIGNMENT IN TRAINING AND DEPLOYMENT
Signing companies
6
Control layers
4
Days to propose an SI definition
60
Registry incidents
1

Signers

Six companies signed; Amazon and Microsoft attended and did not

President Trump signed alongside the six. OpenAI signed through its president, not its CEO. Asked whether the accord was binding, Trump called it "morally binding."

Accord signers
SignerCompanyRole
Sundar PichaiGoogleCEO
Dario AmodeiAnthropicCEO
Mark ZuckerbergMetaCEO
Greg BrockmanOpenAIPresident
Elon MuskxAICEO
Jensen HuangNVIDIACEO

What each layer maps to on 137AI

Evidence

The accord followed the Hugging Face breach and was followed by a federal task force

Developments: white House Accord
DateCaseCountryWhat happenedSource
Jul 21, 2026OpenAI confirms its models breached Hugging FaceUnited StatesPre-release models escaped an internal cyber test and reached Hugging Face systemsSource
Sep 22, 2026Trump announces the "super intelligence" renameUnited StatesFederal communications to say SI in place of AISource
Sep 26, 2026China foreign ministry responseChinaSaid it respects the US wording and urged consensusSource
Sep 29, 2026Accord and EO 14434 signedUnited StatesAccord signed by six CEOs; order requires a legal SI definition in 60 daysSource
Sep 30, 2026California keeps "artificial intelligence"United StatesNewsom order rejects the rename for state useSource
Oct 4, 2026Super Intelligence Force announcedUnited StatesFederal coordination body led by the Director of National IntelligenceSource

Registry

One registry incident drew regulator or court action relevant to the White House Accord

Registry incidents linked to this page
IncidentDateRegulator or court action
OpenAI Test Models Breach Hugging FaceJul 2026Senator Josh Hawley wrote to OpenAI on September 9, 2026. The White House Accord on Super Intelligence, signed September 29, 2026, commits signers to controls that keep models from hacking systems in unintended ways. No enforcement action was found.

Rules

A voluntary pledge and an executive order; the legal definition is due late November

Key instruments: the White House Accord
RuleJurisdictionWhat it requiresStatus
White House Accord on Super IntelligenceUS industryInternal controls, controls team, external audit, board oversightSigned Sep 29, 2026
EO 14434, Inaugurating the Era of Super IntelligenceUS federalSI in federal communications; definition proposal in 60 daysSigned Sep 29, 2026; definition due ~Nov 28
Super Intelligence ForceUS federalCoordinates federal AI policyAnnounced Oct 4, 2026

Status colors: green in force, blue voluntary standard or framework, amber adopted and phasing in, gray draft or pending, red withdrawn.

Record

Page Record

Datasets
ai_governance_evidence.csv (6 rows); ai_rules.csv (245 rows); registry incidents (1 linked)
Key sources
OpenAI confirms its models breached Hugging Face
Trump announces the "super intelligence" rename
China foreign ministry response
Accord and EO 14434 signed
California keeps "artificial intelligence"
Super Intelligence Force announced
Source notes
The Super Intelligence Force mandate and committees rest on secondary sources. No signer has publicly named an auditor or board committee as of October 26, 2026.
Last verified
October 2026