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The Signers: six companies, one safety accord.
The signature page names leaders from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia. They signed the safety accord, not the terminology order. Here are the names, the document, and the questions that should outlast the photo opportunity.
Original satirical illustration. The scene and expressions are fictional.
Who signed.
Read the source documentSundar Pichai / Google
Our take: the search bar ought to be able to find a follow-up question.
Dario Amodei / Anthropic
Our take: four layers of oversight should leave room for one awkward answer.
Mark Zuckerberg / Meta
Our take: a presidential grin is no substitute for a safety report.
Greg Brockman / OpenAI
Our take: AI is literally on the letterhead. Somebody check the stationery.
Elon Musk / xAI
Our take: one more company with AI in its name. The S appears to be for other people.
Jensen Huang / Nvidia
Our take: the chips do the calculating. The signing table can do the explaining.
Trump also signed. Greg Brockman represents OpenAI as its president. These signatures are on the separate safety accord; the AI-to-SI terminology order is a different document.
Six influential companies lent the ceremony their names. The public should get more than six impressive signatures and a better-lit adjective.
OpenAI. xAI. Did nobody read their own damn letterhead?
Two companies on the signed accord already have AI in their names: OpenAI and xAI. Apparently, the rest of us need a grand new abbreviation while the people at the signing table get to keep the old one on their own letterhead. OpenSI? xSI? We look forward to the branding meeting nobody seems eager to schedule.
OpenAI and xAI appear by those names on the accord. The executive order does not require corporate name changes. That is the factual boundary; the letterhead joke can look after itself.
Super Intelligence.
Can't spell United States.
White House Accord on Super Intelligence / September 29, 2026. The two scans below reproduce the archived original: the commitment text first, then the signatures.
The title printed directly beneath Trump's signature is "President of the Unites States." Yes, Unites. The typo appears in the archived original on page 2. The grand arrival of Super Intelligence apparently beat the arrival of a proofreader.
Read the source document Download the signed accord (PDF, 2 pages)Page 1 / The commitment
Page 2 / "President of the Unites States"
Source: The American Presidency Project. Faithful reproductions of the archived document, including its signature page. For searchable text and the original PDF, use the source link above.
Our take: Trumpty Dumpty can rename an entire field of technology, but the paperwork under his own signature cannot manage United States. Six tech chiefs and a president put their names on this masterpiece. All that computing power, and apparently nobody brought spellcheck. Before the next grand ceremony, try Basic Intelligence. Super can wait.
Four layers to check.
The accord calls for internal monitoring and controls, an internal assurance team, an independent external assessment, and independent board-committee oversight. Participating companies also commit to meeting regularly on safety standards and practices.
Read the source documentFour layers are a start. The next questions are who has authority, who is independent, and what the public learns when a check fails. The cameras can leave; the obligations should stay.
The interesting part comes after the photo.
A signature says ‘we commit.’ A published account of what happened next says considerably more. We will judge the safety work by its follow-through.
Meanwhile, the ceremony remains open for ridicule. You can promise to make a model safer without acting as though a presidential adjective just upgraded it.