WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said tech executives agreed to establish voluntary standards for AI and reiterated his support for rapid expansion of data centers, as concerns mount over AI safety and the industry’s growing footprint in communities.
Trump met with the CEOs the same day his aides announced a new AI tool that they said will make it easier for the public to use government services. Trump made the comments after meeting with tech executives at the White House. He did not specify potential members of that group. He added he would soon name a new official to lead White House policies on AI. Silicon Valley executives attended an event launching the new tool, including Meta’s Dina Powell McCormick and Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia led the design of the new tool. Silicon Valley companies Google, SpaceX, Meta and 8VC were listed in the launch event’s program as sponsors. He did not provide evidence.
Trump said he is considering setting up a 10-person board to police the safety of AI tools. AI company executives and investors were among the largest individual donors in 2025 to MAGA Inc., a political action committee aligned with the president. OpenAI’s Brockman and his wife, Anna Brockman, gave a combined $25 million to the committee in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The companies agreed to work with “independent auditors” to assess whether AI systems are working as their designers intended, according to a copy of the agreement posted by Trump on his social media platform. The companies also said they would work to ensure their AI tools do not “hack or access technical systems in unintended ways. Zuckerberg, pulled forward from the crowd of billionaire executives by Trump to speak, said the companies agreed to develop “robust internal controls” for their AI systems. Trump at the launch event said the AI tool could not “in theory, be hacked into” by bad actors.
