On September 29, 2026, Donald Trump and technology executives announced the voluntary Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities at the White House. The agreement calls for company controls, internal monitoring, outside evaluation and board oversight; the meeting produced no commitment to formal AI regulation.

Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai speak outside the White House; Zuckerberg outlines internal controls, outside evaluation and board review.

The framework places much of the work inside participating companies, while also calling for independent external evaluation and board review.

Four layers of oversight

The agreement describes four parts of a company-led oversight framework:

  1. Internal controls: Companies would monitor AI models’ capabilities and alignment during training and deployment, including in areas such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical threats. The controls would also address unintended access to technical systems.
  2. An internal monitoring and remediation team: A company team would check whether controls, monitoring and detection work as intended, then address problems it identifies.
  3. Independent external evaluation: Companies would work with an outside auditor or evaluator to assess whether those controls and monitoring processes are working as intended.
  4. Independent board oversight: A board committee would receive reports from internal teams and external evaluators and oversee the response to identified problems.

Together, these provisions divide oversight among company staff, an external evaluator and a board committee. The agreement describes commitments for those roles; it does not make the voluntary framework a formal regulatory requirement.

Six companies were named as signatories

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia were identified as the six companies whose representatives signed the commitment. Donald Trump also signed; he is separate from that six-company count.

Regular meetings and possible future codification

The agreement says participating companies will meet regularly to develop standards and best practices, without setting a schedule. Trump characterized the commitment as morally binding. It also says that putting the measures into law or regulation could make sense over time.