A typo on the signature page of a major artificial intelligence agreement has drawn fresh mockery to President Donald Trump’s push to rebrand the technology as “super intelligence.”
The voluntary “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” was signed Tuesday at the White House by Trump, 78, alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, xAI CEO Elon Musk and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The document refers to the United States as the “Unites States,” dropping the second letter D.
Trump described the deal as “morally binding.” It establishes four “layers of controls and audits” that participating companies pledged to introduce, aiming to give companies, customers and the public confidence that their technology is operating as intended. Companies committed to internal controls monitoring AI model capabilities and alignment, plus an internal team to verify those systems work properly.
The companies also agreed to work with an independent external auditor and to appoint an independent board committee overseeing reports from both internal and external monitoring teams. The agreement is not legally binding, though it suggests the measures may eventually become laws or regulations.
The spelling error landed as Trump has been aggressively pushing to change federal terminology around the technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order instructing the government to stop using “artificial intelligence” and “AI,” replacing both with “super intelligence” or “SI.” The order stated the new terminology better reflected the “promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities” of the technology.
Trump had already told the United Nations General Assembly that he planned to officially rename AI, arguing the existing term “makes it sound fake and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing.”
He also polled users of Truth Social on whether AI should instead be called “super intelligence” or “superior intelligence.” Of the 50,000 people who voted, 65 percent backed “super intelligence.”
Professor Jean-Pierre Dubé, a marketing expert at the University of Chicago, said that the terminology could create “brand confusion” and argued that it was premature to use the phrase.
Trump has consistently backed rapid AI development, saying at the UN that the technology will be “bigger than the Industrial Revolution” and that he does not want to “stifle growth.”
He has dismissed concerns about AI posing catastrophic risks, writing on Truth Social that “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX” and calling opposition to AI development a “SICK conspiracy.”
Those comments come amid growing concerns about AI safety. OpenAI has acknowledged incidents involving AI agents using unauthorized techniques, while Amodei has warned that AI could pose a “serious” threat to humanity. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has similarly warned that AI could become powerful enough to drive events causing enormous loss of life.
The Tuesday White House lunch that preceded the signing drew several dozen senior figures from the technology industry.
Trump’s executive order on federal AI terminology takes immediate effect across government communications.