Donald Trump has signed a major new White House agreement with some of the world’s biggest technology companies.
Unfortunately, somebody appears to have forgotten how to spell the name of the country he is president of.
The White House Accord on Super Intelligence was signed by Trump and executives from companies including Meta, Google, Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday.
On the second page of the document, underneath Trump’s signature, his title reads:
“Donald J. Trump
President of the Unites States”
Not United States.
Unites States.
The document was subsequently posted by Trump himself on Truth Social, with the typo still clearly visible.
As of Wednesday morning, HuffPost reported that the image containing the mistake remained on the president’s account.
Trump signs AI agreement with major tech companies
The mistake appeared on a document which the White House is treating rather more seriously.
Trump hosted senior technology executives in Washington on September 29 before announcing a voluntary agreement setting out principles for companies developing advanced artificial intelligence.
Executives involved included Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Elon Musk.
The agreement calls on companies developing frontier AI systems to introduce several layers of oversight.
Those include stronger internal controls, dedicated monitoring teams, external audits and independent board-level oversight.
It is not legally binding.
Trump described it as “morally binding” and compared it to a constitution for the industry.
“It’s almost like a constitution, in a way,” he said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the companies were voluntarily committing themselves to greater oversight and transparency.
The agreement leaves much of that monitoring in the hands of the companies themselves.
Trump wants AI renamed ‘Super Intelligence’
The event also came with another characteristically Trump addition.
He wants the US government to stop calling artificial intelligence “artificial intelligence”.
Instead, the administration is moving towards the term “Super Intelligence”, or SI.
Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use the new terminology, arguing that the word “artificial” has negative associations.
The White House agreement itself is formally titled the White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.
Trump told reporters the companies involved would largely police themselves.
“They’re really going to be policing each other,” he said.
The voluntary approach comes as governments around the world continue to debate how tightly increasingly powerful AI models should be regulated.
Six tech leaders signed the accord
The agreement was signed by six senior technology executives alongside Trump.
They included representatives from Google, Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, OpenAI and Musk’s technology businesses.
The principles include companies carrying out their own safety checks before deploying powerful models, using independent auditors and putting systems in place to detect potentially dangerous behaviour.
The accord also acknowledges that voluntary standards could eventually be replaced or supplemented by legislation.
For now, however, Trump’s administration has favoured industry-led controls rather than imposing a detailed federal regulatory regime.
Reuters reported that Trump also used the event to back further expansion of the enormous data centres required to develop and operate advanced AI systems.
The typo survived all the way to Trump’s Truth Social account
Against all of that, one question remains.
How did a document involving the White House and some of the most powerful technology companies in the world get as far as the president’s desk without anyone spotting “Unites States”?
The error appears directly beneath Trump’s signature on the page containing the names of the people backing the accord.
Trump then posted the signed document to Truth Social himself.
There is no suggestion Trump personally wrote the incorrect title. The typo appeared in the prepared document he signed.
But it means an agreement about the future of “Super Intelligence” managed to get one of the most basic pieces of information on the page wrong.
President of the United States?
Not on this version.
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