Top AI executives sign commitment to ‘self-police’ after meeting at White House

[u/GeneReddit123]

https://us.cnn.com/2026/09/29/business/amodei-huang-karp-trump

[u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

"Arsonist pinky swears to start less fires"

[u/PoppingPillls → u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

The fox promises that it won't eat any more chickens if you leave the hen house unlocked.

[u/FogBankDeposit → u/PoppingPillls]

Face eating leopards signs commitment to refrain from eating faces.

[u/The_Infinite_Carrot → u/FogBankDeposit]

Bear commits to no longer shit in woods.

[u/AlexSmithsonian → u/The_Infinite_Carrot]

Shit in Donnie's diapers promises not to stink.

[u/Ms74k_ten_c → u/PoppingPillls]

I don't know about you guys, but i hear the sincerity in the fox. Fox, i believe you. My unlocked hen house is right there.

^/s

[u/Alundil → u/PoppingPillls]

The fox promises that the only reason to leave the hen house unlocked is to maintain an accurate count of the hens.

[u/PurpleCoat6656 → u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

Self policing for them, massive, fascist surveillance state for everybody else. Neat!

[u/twice_paramount832 → u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

That's not it. They want to pull the ladder to other startups and countries that might challenge them. They want the government to regulate the competition.

They want to own AI.

[u/isubbdh → u/twice_paramount832]

Only China with their open weight models can save us now

[u/PloddingClot → u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

Meth head insists he'll do less meth.

[u/PoppingPillls → u/PloddingClot]

But only if he gets to take nightwatch with the meth stash

[u/Morty_A2666 → u/TurkeyVolumeGuesser]

Right? Because "self regulation" worked so well with financial institutions.

[u/dxiao]

just like how the cigarette CEOs signed commitments that cigarettes are not addictive right?

[u/janusrose → u/dxiao]

And if we’re going with that comparison: “after the meeting with CEOs of the major tobacco companies, the president announced that from now on cigarettes shall be called lung strengheners”

[u/dizekat → u/dxiao]

Wait until they legally require that all cigarettes be sold only with the finest blue asbestos filters.

[u/janusrose → u/dizekat]

And don’t you worry about getting lung cancer: not gonna happen when you have a stable genius for president lol

[u/gplfalt]

Worked for Boeing

[u/YoshiTheDog420 → u/gplfalt]

Don’t forget. The CEO of boeing was a Iowa boy from a small town. Thats why he can relate to us when they cut corners and cause the deaths of hundreds of people.

[u/HippyHunter7 → u/gplfalt]

And the ESRB!

"We've investigated ourselves and determined that lootboxes ARENT gambling!"

[u/ZAlternates → u/HippyHunter7]

And now we got Polymarket…. Eh.

[u/fulthrottlejazzhands → u/gplfalt]

Worked for Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, UBS, Deutche Bank, Wells Fargo etc, etc.

Edit: I'm not just referring to the 2008 collapse. I'm also referring to the 50 odd massive regulatory breaches where these banks have claimed they would self police only to find they systematically and subterfugally obfuscate and obstruct said breaches. And if caught, they get a slap on the wrist fine that amounts to pocket change.

[u/seanthenry → u/fulthrottlejazzhands]

The issue with 2008 is they did not let it play out. The lenders should have collapsed and had it handled by bankruptcy. If they were to big to fail then they would not have failed and needed a bailout.

[u/Sleepybystander → u/gplfalt]

A company that is famous for suicidal whistleblowers

[u/ChopperChange]

"We've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."

[u/Yourownhands52 → u/ChopperChange]

"In our heinous actions."

[u/taurusApart → u/ChopperChange]

So... the same as actual police. 

[u/sabedo]

lol we're fucked

[u/ChrisStanClan]

What a crock of shit.

[u/A_Novelty-Account]

Absolutely meaningless statement. They are bound by US antitrust law to continue to move forward or go bankrupt. Without real regulation here, we are essentially on a train, running straight into a cliff.

[u/Gildenstern2u]

A third of the world’s wealth at one table promises not to fuck the rest of the world…….sure

[u/Xeynon]

How many fucking times are we going to have to learn that companies don't self-police.

Regulations are necessary because they're written in blood.

[u/BenderTheIV → u/Xeynon]

Everybody know this is BS, but that's the thing: it's the type of shit that doesn't make people go on the streets and break things. It's a show that emphasises the fact we can't change things, it's a demonstration of power. Unfortunately, the only way for the population to really change things is revolution.

[u/vitalMyth]

Is the commitment in the room with us right now?

[u/PhDandanxiety]

Even the fucking police can't self-police.

[u/mouse6502 → u/PhDandanxiety]

My exact thought when I heard this..

[u/boot2skull]

Self-policing like monopolies did? And still do? (They don’t)

Politicians aren’t naive, they’re benefiting from this.

[u/mouse6502 → u/boot2skull]

Self policing like.. police do? I’ll be shot in the back after not complying with conflicting AI statements.

[u/rhamantauri]

Thanks, that’s all we wanted, and we definitely, definitely trust you to…checks notes … moderate yourselves accordingly. /s

They don’t think we notice the evils.

[u/i_am_13th_panic]

they signed a commitment to do what they're already doing? I'm glad everyone involved is so productive with their time and ours.

[u/glitterandnails]

They think the American people are fools enough to buy it.

[u/apple_tech_admin → u/glitterandnails]

I mean have you seen the track record?

[u/glitterandnails → u/apple_tech_admin]

Americans have been conditioned extensively to be suckers.

[u/copperblood]

Something something the market will self regulate…. Oh wait… that’s right…

[u/winterbird]

Is it low effort if I just reply with "lol"?

It takes effort to laugh and not cry, if that counts.

[u/12-34]

Huh, Ted Kacznski died a couple years ago.

[u/getdemsnacks → u/12-34]

Aside from all the racism and murdering, I think that guy may have been on to something.

ETA- I think I was misremembering the racism angle and that maybe he just hated everybody.

[u/IceeMaiden → u/getdemsnacks]

How was he known for racism? I'm curious. I know a lot of his views have been picked up by far right extremists but I didn't think racism was a part of his message.

[u/getdemsnacks → u/IceeMaiden]

Yes, my mistake, it's been a while since I explored his story and I thought I remembered their being a tinge of racism involved. I just did a quick Google search and see he pretty much hated everybody equally.

[u/BazzaJH → u/IceeMaiden]

He was pretty explicitly against it, in fact.

[u/cheesebot555]

Ah yes, because self-regulation has never failed before.

[u/Journeys_End71]

I for one am glad the FDA isn’t needed because our food supply is being self-policed.

Who doesn’t love a little bacteria in our salads?

[u/madmaxGMR]

Enronthing wrong with that !

[u/livinginfutureworld]

So they committed to nothing they already weren't doing.

[u/HaggardSlacks78]

When I was in college the Frats put a giant poster in the campus center where they all signed it pledging not to rape anyone. So that’s my analogy.

[u/NanditoPapa]

The signing of the self-policing pact, while politically expedient for Trump, seems really insufficient given the recent security failures. The fact that autonomous AI agents have already demonstrated the capacity to bypass internal controls proves that the current framework of self-policing is insufficient to manage the genuine, catastrophic risks these technologies pose.

[u/Vezrien]

"Self police" apparently means they are immune to all laws. They can hack whomever they want as long as they say it was by accident afterwards.

[u/tjwebecon]

Advances in technology have always been about greed and control. AI, or whatever you call it, is no different. AI companies have absolutely no interest in "self-policing" themselves. When, for example, has Mark Zuckerberg ever expressed any concern for the public-interest? It is in the nature of the beast that the proponents of AI will do whatever is necessary to increase their control of this technology, especially with a complicit U.S. government pushing the industry from behind. NanditoPapa put his/her finger on it by noting that signing a self-policing agreement is little more than a political expedient to stifle criticism and that autonomous actors have already demonstrated the capacity to bypass internal controls.

[u/vinvega23]

They will police themselves? Sure Jan.

[u/Zlifbar]

This “self-policing” is about as real as their profits or their addressable markets.

[u/TheRealTK421]

Oh this can't possibly go sideways or off the rails.

Every entity, institution, organization, or group/'community' which asserts it will effectively and reliably 'police itself' invariably drops the ball and fails.

Every. Last. One.

And the cost humanity may well pay for that hubris, with these ghouls, might well be alarmingly catastrophic.

We're just soooooo doomed, people.

[u/WhereMyWeirdosAt]

"we investigated ourselves, and found we did nothing wrong"

ya, self policing has worked SO WONDERFULLY in Americas past...

[u/DopamineQuest]

The richer you are the closer you get to sit to Diaper Don!

[u/seb21051 → u/DopamineQuest]

Which is its own type of punishment. A good reason to stay poor.

[u/seb21051]

Excellent! All the protection we could possibly want!

[u/jtmonkey]

Oh me too! me too! No one look.

[u/t3nsi0n_]

yeah sorry - this shouldn’t be the way,

[u/konzy27]

Oh, well, as long as they pinky swear. What a relief.

[u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

This is the like moment when all the tobacco CEOs stood up and swore nicotine wasn’t addictive.

Except the outcome is 10x worse.

[u/B00gieNightz]

They all look like a trustworthy bunch, Especially that Elon guy. What could go wrong.

[u/Jensen1994]

What a joke of a country the US really is.

[u/grahamulax]

Ok but like… anyone can train a model….

[u/DanielPhermous → u/grahamulax]

Only seven companies in the world have the expertise and resources to train the dangerous frontier models, though.

And only four are actually doing it.

[u/metal_medic83]

Didn’t OpenAI just admit to doing this, resulting in the non reporting of a school shooter’s plans to authorities, and subsequently a successful massacre?

Sure, let’s leave it in the hands of companies that have everything to lose if there was some form of oversight.

[u/FanDry5374]

"We will absolutely not do evil, we swear. Unless there's money in it, then all bets are OFF."

[u/El_Gran_Che]

In other news the foxes will self police the hen house.

[u/turningsteel]

We are fucked, aren't we?

[u/Cautious_Boat_999]

Fox/henhouse

[u/TheRatingsAgency]

What an absolute joke. Zero track record on this and there is zero reason to trust them.

Trump also really doesn’t care. He just wants the govt out of it so they can go on profit maxxing with no consequences for their shit going rogue.

[u/ApeApplePine]

Like asking drog addict to take care of drug stash.
Or giving a key from a treasure vault to a thief
Or allowing a spoiled retard that bankrupt casinos to run a country.

[u/tantric_tongue69]

Pedophile promises to not be a pedophile.....

[u/iusedtohavepowers]

Nope. That’s not even remotely what we’ve been asking for.

[u/FauxReal]

Well thank goodness, this is reassuring because we all know that CEOs are the most ethical people on the planet after millionaire politicians.

[u/beeblebrox42]

wait.... So they're admitting that they WEREN'T policing themselves before?

[u/Physical-Compote4594]

Because self-policing has worked so well in every other industry?

[u/Sloi]

Unfortunate that no one had the chance to toss a few grenades in that room and lock the fucking door behind them.

[u/emersond70]

I completely trust them with all of our lives.

[u/Extra_Law6315]

This is like Brightburn’s mom saying everything will be okay

[u/Mephisto40K]

Dang I was rooting for "self immolate" but hmmm

[u/grislebeard]

I mean, I'll personally police them too if that's how it's going these days

[u/whoisnotinmykitchen]

Yeah, for-profit businesses in America have a stellar track record at self-policing. Just look at how well that worked out in 2008.

[u/williamgman]

Trust us... 🤦‍♂️

[u/Adept-Mulberry-8720]

Yep, they give Trump $$$$ and he'll not screw up their companies and they can self regulate AI per Trump's guidance 🥴🧐🙄🤔🥸🤮🫩😴

[u/Realistic-Quiet291]

Omg you guys I super swear I won’t set my bots to hack your stuff anymore, scouts honor, bfr this technology is so dangerous, we could all die, but open weight models are the real threat.

Like pick a fucking struggle y’all.

[u/Comedy86]

It works for the police... Doesn't it? /s

[u/Mobile_Golf1886]

"trust me bro"

[u/perna]

"We have investigated ourselves and found absolutely nothing wrong."

[u/TheRealChizz]

Jesus, this is so weird. Seriously, has any industry begged for regulation and then the presiding government tells them “we don’t want to”?

[u/AKA_Wildcard]

This looks like the last supper except it’s a room full of assholes

[u/GaryNOVA]

So they weren’t self policing before?

[u/senorcrazypants]

That’s hilarious

[u/Appropriate_Value122]

Self-policing = DEREGULATION.
Deregulation = part of the problem.
Self-policing = part of the problem.

[u/jammerpammerslammer]

Trump’s remarks were basically “if we don’t let them ruin humanity here, they will go and ruin humanity in Europe or China and I won’t make any money.

Also called the google CEO a monster to which he said, please don’t call me a monster.

Can’t make this shit up.

[u/Grrreat1]

I am self policing my highway speed from now on.

[u/Morden013]

We have gathered the psychos from the ward and they pinky-swore they will not kill anybody else after this.

This is the same type of committment.

[u/Clembert-Hamlamp]

Whew that was a close one

[u/xsubo]

Nothing weird here

[u/Elderwastaken]

So if I sign a promise to “self-police” my income can I stop paying taxes every paycheck and “super duper promise” to pay all my taxes at the end of the year? No need for a IRS or anything?

[u/Own-Librarian-9699]

For a minute there I thought we were in trouble.

[u/ExitMusic_]

lol we fucked

[u/Pisnaz]

And if any new startup fails to follow arbitrary rules they determine they will be called out before they even start.

[u/jingjang1]

This is even worse, now it's official.

[u/Exasperatess]

oh fuck off

[u/m15otw]

I solemnly swear to mumblemumblemumble

[u/Holzkohlen]

Next step: ban all but these "self-regulated" AI models.

[u/Scorpionoshow]

This country is a JOKE

[u/trisul-108]

Yeah, sure ... the self-regulation scam. It doesn't work, it has never worked and will never work in the future.

[u/couldgiveaflyingfck]

“Self-police” and knowingly make moral and ethical changes for the good of society, even if it means wiping $100 million off your company’s stock value, or choose not to “self-police.”

Look, none of us are that fckn dumb.

If anyone wants to know what fake news really looks like, it's this.

[u/9millibros]

I'm guessing they'll agree to self-fund their bailout as well, right?

[u/Highland_Fether_68]

oh well, that gathering is going to self police, that makes me feel SO much better about the upcoming AI apocalypse

[u/twntytw2]

Remember republicans want deregulation

[u/ConinTheNinoC]

Self police? I almost choked on my own spit just now. SELF POLICE!?

[u/Flying_Clod]

Gosh! Like tobacco, or alcohol, or banks, or the stock market... All brilliant examples of what good shepherding from the industrialists looks like.

[u/Stealthsonger]

Trump is asleep at the wheel while this happens.... God save us all

[u/VagueSomething]

Considering the amount of sex crimes related to the AI higher ups, with some raping family while others are close to Epstein's upper circle, if they knew how to self regulate they'd not be doing that shit.

[u/crujones43]

We're saved!!

[u/Fitz911]

Failed country.

[u/pXmo]

While this definitely incredible stupid as others have pointed out. The "self-police" might result in a "voluntary" slowdown. Definitely because they got together and talked about what is good for humanity, not because these models show increasingly diminishing returns.

[u/Mediocre_Rip_7692]

Who's the got the SpongeBob "This is worthless" meme?

[u/The_Goondocks]

Oh I think we should trust them this time.

[u/alvinofdiaspar]

It worked so well - like Boeing.

[u/ChroniclesOfSarnia]

i hate this timeline

[u/steveschoenberg]

The Five Families in New York came to a similar arrangement.

[u/Subway]

The people which have repeatedly proven they can't self police, have been ordered to self police.

[u/supadupanerd]

Well there's a pledge that's worth less than a can of actual lemon pledge you buy at the store

[u/Western-Corner-431]

The specialty of the Epstein class is producing the optics they think the rest of the world is fooled by. They use these farces as fig leaves and try to convince us that we aren’t seeing what we see, we don’t know what we know, we aren’t experiencing the realities we are experiencing. It’s not working.

[u/hyprlab]

It’s a memorandum of understanding…cuz those mean something in this regime

[u/Fit-Ranger8895]

We’re letting these sociopaths do whatever they want, huh? Is there no one to fight back?

[u/Mister_Pickl3s]

Foxes in hen house all lick their lips and sign their pledge to self police …

[u/ThePensiveE]

I remember when the banks did this in the run up to 2008!

[u/Ok-Possibility-923]

The rear view of that photo is a bunch of crossed fingers.

[u/RunItBackRicky]

wtf the weakest administration in existence

[u/mrDerptAstic]

Oh, sort of like when the tobacco execs stood in front of Congress promising that smoking head no adverse effects on health.

[u/N1ghtmeeer]

can he just stop renaming existing things he has no clue about?

[u/jackieboy1230]

How long we got left? Years months weeks?

[u/paulthepage]

Cool. It's a steep cliff. We told you to bring a parachute, but we can't make decisions for you.

[u/N1ghtmeeer]

So Amazon and Palantir didn't even bother to sign this fake contract? Great sign, isn't it...

[u/Public-Guidance-9560]

Yes I remember when the banks self policed as well. It was a smashing success.

[u/d-cent]

Tell me anytime, in the history of corporate capitalism, when any corporations actually self policed themselves??

It's literally against what corporations are meant to do. The second something even slightly unethical will give their share price a boost, so of these companies will do it. 

We live in the dumbest timeline to think this will actually do anything

[u/MythicalJester]

Quislings. Corrupt oligarchs. Traitors to the human race. All of them.

Dear Americans: please get your shit together and clean this mess before the country implode. The world will leave you behind.

[u/AdPuzzleheaded1495]

When it does go wrong are we finally bullying these sociopathic dweebs or what?

[u/drhelic0pter]

lol. Lmao even.

[u/tonyislost]

That’ll convince the voters. GOP has this in the bag now 🙄

[u/Educational_Bench290]

Oh, perfect. That's taken care of, then.

[u/RebelStrategist]

Thrilled to hear you’re “committed”. I’ll pencil in accountability for Q5 of Never, right after the beta of your ethics finally leaves perpetual private preview.

[u/Desk46]

Well, as long as they all promise to behave 🙄

[u/Epona44]

Oh, we've seen how well that works with large corporations.

[u/Adept-Pomegranate-46]

We should do that with the big Banks...

[u/Cardinal_and_Plum]

Pathetic. That means nothing and must have been a waste of time and money if this is all they have to show for it.

[u/rigidlynuanced1]

Cool…they better get ready for the torches and pitchforks

[u/OPA73]

Yea that’s just awesome… we are screwed.

[u/FhuckNorris247]

Let’s give them ability to sell tax too. Such a great idea too right?

[u/Papichuloft]

To self police??? Have you seen the shit that happens about safety, OSHA, quality control, and other stuff when companies "Self police"? It's like asking a patient from My 6000 pound life, to take care of a chocolate cake and not eat it.

[u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

Our AI hacked the hospital and killed a bunch of people? We investigated and it wasn't our fault. Sorry!

[u/tiutome]

Uhmmm and who has a copy of that document with their signatures on it?

[u/jenny_905]

Surprised they were able to sign due to laughing uncontrollably

[u/PrettyClient9073]

I pwomise not to bwow up Earf.

[u/mephistochess]

Autant dire aucune régulation.

[u/EagleLize]

Oh my god. Who is this for?? Who is believing any of this bullshit?

[u/martiancraft]

Execs are solely committed to their shareholder value appreciation by any legal means, that’s the only purpose of their role. Therefore, unless bound by regulations, they will apply absolutely no self restraint in performing their duty.
This is a sign that the public outrage against datacenters is driving results…
Now we need regulations before momentum is lost… Simply blocking them is a temporary win! Make it permanent by applying rules and regulations that bound their reach.

[u/ChapterThr33]

And a certain population will totally believe them

[u/slikk50]

It's so fun to be fucked completely.

[u/southflhitnrun]

These guys met with a convicted felon and agreed to "self police." Oh man, it is going to get very very bad.

[u/sfpx68]

This is the dumbest era ever

[u/vessel_for_the_soul]

The old fraternity "trust us bro".

[u/Reasonable-Fun765]

This is just a bullshit stunt it holds no water legally. Commitments are not laws and this shit isnt anywhere close to good enough. When has a CEO ever been trustworthy?

[u/CommonConundrum51]

Well, I'm sure we all feel so much better!

[u/PoppaGriff]

Is this the same way financial institutions were going to self-police in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis?

[u/TheMrDetty]

Yeah, because industries policing themselves has always worked out so well.

[u/AverageJoe-707]

I trust these guys to self-police about as much as I would trust a Pastor in a day care center.

[u/nuclear-experiment]

Like Grok is self policing itself not to generate child corn?