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Trump Calls Voluntary AI Safety Standards “Morally Binding”

By Drooid · Oct 10, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC · How we work

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President Donald Trump hosted Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia executives at the White House on September 29.
Trump called the voluntary AI safety standards signed at the meeting “morally binding” despite lacking legal enforcement.
OpenAI runs tabletop exercises to discuss worst-case AI scenarios and inform future legislation.
A Wall Street Journal poll in late September found 63 percent of U.S. adults support an immediate AI development pause.

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President Donald Trump hosted Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia executives at the White House on September 29.
Trump called the voluntary AI safety standards signed at the meeting “morally binding” despite lacking legal enforcement.
OpenAI runs tabletop exercises to discuss worst-case AI scenarios and inform future legislation.
A Wall Street Journal poll in late September found 63 percent of U.S. adults support an immediate AI development pause.