White House AI Safety Pledge
The White House recently brought together major technology chief executive officers, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, to sign an artificial intelligence safety pledge described by President Donald Trump as morally binding. Alongside this agreement, an executive order was signed officially rebranding artificial intelligence as super intelligence.
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