Washington DC - President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the tech executives gathered at the White House to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) safeguards had signed a "morally binding" commitment to self-regulate.

"They're going to police themselves," Trump said after a meeting of top AI leaders at the White House, including NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei.

Trump said the tech bosses had signed a deal that would put on paper their commitment to self-regulate in a morally binding agreement that would not be legally enforceable.

Speaking to reporters outside the Oval Office surrounded by the world's most powerful tech bosses, Trump also confirmed that he would officially rename the technology "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence "because it's not artificial."

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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said the accord aims to assure customers that AI technology "works in the way that we intend."

The commitment includes "robust internal controls" and multiple layers of auditing – from internal risk reviews to external auditors and oversight from the companies' boards of directors, he said. Zuckerberg called it a starting point for industry-wide standards.

The lunch meeting included Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, and Sundar Pichai of Google.

The gathering occurred as attitudes toward AI sour in Washington, with lawmakers increasingly under pressure from voters to curb or slow AI development over fears it could displace workers and upend society.

The issue of data centers, the vast computing facilities the technology requires, has emerged as a flashpoint in midterm election races in both parties, with more and more communities worried about rising electricity bills and the strain on water and land.

Trump has dismissed opponents of these data centers and after the meeting insisted that AI companies "will be very generous" with communities who open their doors to them.

"They'll help with their schools, they'll help with their teachers," he said.