Trump’s AI Safety Pledge Misspells “United States” Beneath His Signature

President Donald Trump and a group of top AI executives signed a voluntary AI safety agreement on Tuesday, September 30, 2026 — but the document drew immediate attention for an embarrassing typo: “United States” was misspelled as “Unites States” directly beneath the president’s signature.

The error appeared in a photo of the signed agreement that Trump shared to Truth Social. Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak was among the first to flag the mistake. The White House was contacted for comment. All other signatories and their company names were spelled correctly.

The document, titled “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,” was announced following a White House gathering that included Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. The pledge outlines how companies training and deploying frontier AI models should “ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved.” It calls for independent board oversight and internal controls, though it is entirely voluntary with no legal or regulatory consequences for violations.

The gathering came weeks after OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Amodei, and Elon Musk had called for a slowdown in AI development — calls that Trump and Huang rejected. Trump had previously stated, “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” The pledge appears to represent a compromise position. At a press conference following the signing, Zuckerberg described the accord as a “start” that the “whole industry could come to,” calling it “a historic conversation.”

Separately, Trump signed an executive order directing all government departments and agencies to replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “superintelligence” or “SI.”

The spelling error may suggest the document received limited review before being signed and shared publicly.