‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error

Headline from The Guardian · compiled from 5 sources

The Guardian reports that the White House misspelled "United States" right under Donald Trump's signature on an accord he signed with AI executives on Tuesday[1]

According to The Guardian, the line under the president's signature on the accord on "Super Intelligence" appeared as "President of the Unites States"[1]. The Guardian also reports that Bloomberg News correspondent David Gura appeared to be the first to notice the spelling error.[1]The Guardian says that Trump posted the document containing the misspelling on Truth Social, and the White House Communications Team emailed it out[1]. Snopes reports that an official White House X post with an image of the document confirmed that whoever prepared the document truly misspelled "United States"[2].Snopes says the signatories included Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, "XAI" CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang[2].The Guardian reports that the accord sets out four layers of "controls and audits"[1] for companies. USA Today reports that Trump called the document "morally binding" with a "tremendous self-policing aspect."[3]Storyboard18 reports that social media users questioned how a document involving some of the biggest names in AI could make it through to publication with such a basic error.[4]According to The Guardian, it is unclear how the misspelling occurred or whether it will appear in the Federal Register[1]. The Guardian says it has asked the White House for comment[1]. KGTV reports that Snopes reached out to the White House for comment on the error, but did not hear back.[5]

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  1. [1]‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error | Donald Trump | The Guardian
  2. [2]White House misspelled United States in 'super intelligence' accord | Snopes.com
  3. [3]Trump's new accord on 'super intelligence' includes spelling error
  4. [4]‘Super Intelligence’ accord, simple typo; White House AI pact goes viral for spelling error - Storyboard18
  5. [5]Fact or Fiction: United States misspelled by White House in 'Super Intelligence' accord?

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