White House unveils Super Intelligence Accord alongside Executive Order 14434

The White House Accord on Super Intelligence is a voluntary pledge of about 300 words that President Trump and six AI company leaders signed at the White House on September 29, 2026.

The same day, Trump signed Executive Order 14434, Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence, which tells the executive branch to use Super Intelligence and SI instead of Artificial Intelligence and AI.

What it is

The Accord was signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and OpenAI president Greg Brockman after a White House meeting on AI safety.

Executive Order 14434 says Super Intelligence and SI carry the same legal meaning as artificial intelligence under existing federal statute, until any future change.

Neither document is legally binding regulation: the Accord sets out commitments companies say they will follow, and the order is addressed to federal agencies rather than industry.

What it requires

The Accord asks each signer that trains and deploys frontier models to implement internal controls to monitor model capabilities and alignment in cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical-threat areas and prevent unintended hacking or system access.

It also calls for partnership with an independent external auditor or evaluator to assess whether those controls, monitoring and detection are operating as intended.

Finally, signers agreed to designate an independent board committee to oversee and receive reports from internal teams and auditors and to ensure identified issues are remediated.

The text itself says codifying these steps into law or regulation may make sense over time, but imposes no such requirement now.

Separately, Executive Order 14434 gives the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology 60 days, until about November 28, 2026, to propose legislative language for a federal Super Intelligence definition.

What security leaders should do

Treat the Accord as a voluntary governance checklist rather than a compliance mandate: map existing model-monitoring, incident-detection, and board-reporting practices against its four layers so gaps can be identified quickly. Because the Accord names no auditor, standard, or enforcement body, security leaders dealing with signer companies should ask what independence means in practice and request evidence of external assessments rather than assuming the pledge alone demonstrates assurance. Track the pending 60-day legislative proposal on a Super Intelligence definition, since any statutory change could alter which systems and vendor contracts the terminology shift eventually touches. Procurement and contract teams working with federal agencies should also expect Super Intelligence and SI to begin appearing in solicitations, policy documents, and public communications even though the order does not require rewriting existing contracts or regulations.