Trump-signed AI safety pledge misspells "United States"

On Tuesday, Trump and leading AI executives announced a signed pledge called the “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,” a voluntary promise to add more controls and safety measures as AI development continues rapidly. A photo of the signed agreement that Trump shared to Truth Social shows “United States” misspelled as “Unites States” beneath his own signature, though the other signatories and their companies are spelled correctly. Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak was among the first to flag the error; TechCrunch has reached out to the White House for comment.

The pledge’s announcement followed a White House gathering where AI leaders including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei discussed AI advancements. The meeting came weeks after OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Amodei, and Elon Musk called for a deceleration of AI development — calls that Trump and Huang rejected. “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins,” Trump had previously said.

The pledge maps out ways that companies training and deploying frontier models should “ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved,” including tapping an independent board for oversight and implementing internal controls. It is voluntary, and there don’t appear to be legal or regulatory consequences for a signatory that breaks it. At a press conference after the gathering, Zuckerberg called the accord a “start” that the “whole industry could come to,” calling it “sort of a historic conversation.”

Via an executive order, Trump is also directing all government departments and agencies to change their phrasing from “artificial intelligence” to “superintelligence” or “SI.”

Why it matters

The misspelling is a small but visible sign of how quickly the pledge came together, at a moment when the substance of its voluntary commitments — and the lack of any enforcement mechanism — matters more than its optics.