President Donald Trump hosted a high-stakes gathering of the tech industry's most powerful figures at the White House on Tuesday, resulting in the signature of the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence." The voluntary pact, which includes commitments to internal monitoring and independent audits, was marred by a glaring orthographic error: the document identifies Trump as the "President of the Unites States."
The misspelling sits prominently beneath Trump’s signature on the second page, a detail that escaped the notice of signatories including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Greg Brockman, Dario Amodei, and Jensen Huang. Pichai even shared the flawed document on X, touting Google’s hundreds of billions of dollars in US investment and its commitment to AI norms, without flagging the error.
Social media users pounced on the slip immediately. "Super Intelligence is AI without spell check," one user mocked, while another asked if the system missed "the super intelligent typo" while overseeing super intelligence. The irony is sharp: an agreement focused on rigorous oversight and safeguards for advanced AI systems failed a basic proofreading check by the very humans tasked with governing it.
The accord itself is "morally binding" rather than legally enforceable, per Trump’s description, though it lays the groundwork for future regulations. It mandates board-level committees for receiving safety reports and independent external audits. Trump also signed a separate executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to replace "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" in official communications.
As of press time, the White House has declined to comment on the spelling error. No corrected version of the accord has been released, leaving the typo as the defining visual of a landmark, if flawed, moment in US AI governance.