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Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Meta Platforms (Facebook)

Trump:"It's Not AI, It's SI" Musk, Huang, Zuckerberg Sign the White House Super Intelligence Accord

📅 Oct 01, 2026 MJ English 16 MIN 6074 VIEWS 62 SEGMENTS · 8 SPEAKERS
"It's not AI, it's SI. We've changed the name officially today." On September 29, 2026, after a White House luncheon, President Trump stood on the driveway with Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, OpenAI's Greg Brockman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei to announce the White House Accord on Super Intelligence — "almost like a constitution," and "morally binding." A 16-minute cut of the 38-minute press gaggle (off-topic Q&A removed), with English & Traditional Chinese subtitles and a live panel of 103 vocabulary items. Chapters 00:00 Cold open: "It's not AI, it's SI" 00:16 "Alm...

What Mark Zuckerberg said

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Mark Zuckerberg announced that the industry has officially renamed AI to SI, or super intelligence, and that he signed the White House accord on developing the technology safely. He summarized the accord's principles: building robust internal controls, detecting issues, and layering audits from internal risk review to external evaluators, with boards of directors independently reviewing auditor reports. He emphasized that the accord is a start, not the only action, and that it gives the American public and customers confidence that the technology works as intended. On national security, Zuckerberg said the consensus was that American leadership in AI is the most important thing for national security, and that winning the AI race is winning. He also noted that the industry came together around putting the American people first in that race.

Key takeaways

  1. Zuckerberg announced the official renaming of AI to SI, or super intelligence, at the White House accord signing.
  2. Zuckerberg said the consensus was that American leadership in AI is the most important thing for national security.
  3. Zuckerberg said the goal is to give the American public and customers confidence that the technology works as intended.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Renaming AI to SI
  2. 9:30White House accord signing
  3. 12:59National security consensus

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 0:26President, [laughter] did you speak yet?
  2. 9:05No guardrails, no self-policing is enough to follow?
  3. 9:16Mark, you want to discuss what you thought?
  4. 12:38If you have information that national security is at risk with this technology, will you support a slowdown of the technology?
Mark Zuckerberg 0:01 ↗
It's not AI, it's SI. That's the other thing. We've changed the name officially today.
Elon Musk 0:06 ↗
Well, I think it is worth highlighting the positive benefits of AI, which SI, pardon me.
Mark Zuckerberg 0:13 ↗
Thank you. [laughter] Super intelligence.
Reporter 0:18 ↗
Mr. President, how did the meeting go, sir? Mr. President, how...
Donald Trump 0:21 ↗
I've never done this one before. I've never done this location.
Reporter 0:26 ↗
Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, [laughter] did you speak yet?
Mark Zuckerberg 0:31 ↗
I did. Yes, sir.
Reporter 0:32 ↗
Mr. President, tell us why the world should not be concerned about AI. Why there shouldn't be guardrails?
Donald Trump 0:37 ↗
Because we have people that love our country and love the world.
Reporter 0:40 ↗
It requires more than love, doesn't it, sir?
Donald Trump 0:42 ↗
No, it requires this. And they're the smartest people in the world. And we had a great meeting today. Every one of them. We had a great, really a great, great meeting. It was something very, very special. We had the top, I'd say it looked like a group of about 40, but whatever it was, here's one of them right here. Jensen and Nvidia, and they love our country and they love the world, and they came together and they did something that few people really... it's almost like a constitution in a way.
Reporter 1:11 ↗
Mr. President.
Donald Trump 1:12 ↗
And the biggest, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection.
Reporter 1:21 ↗
About self-regulation, Mr. President. Mr. President, regulation... Sorry. Who should be held accountable when the AI agents commit a crime? Like...
Donald Trump 1:34 ↗
It's not AI, it's SI. That's the other thing. We've changed the name officially today. We've changed the name, Steve, officially to SI. Okay. Sai, like Sai Si instead of AI. You know what that means? Super intelligence. So, so the name, I guess that's really quite an announcement because, but the name has been officially changed by the biggest, the smartest, the greatest people anywhere in the world at this. And I was with President Xi a few days ago, and he would admit, he said these are the smartest people in the world at what they do. And it's a big, it's a big thing. But it's been officially changed to super intelligence or SI.
Reporter 2:18 ↗
Mr. President, Mr. President, it's more than about a name, is it?
Donald Trump 2:21 ↗
Go ahead.
Reporter 2:22 ↗
Is this a... that everybody signed? Is it binding in any way?
Donald Trump 2:25 ↗
I think it's morally binding. Yeah.
Reporter 2:27 ↗
Mr. President, [laughter] Mr. President, what could a bad actor do with this technology from what you hear from your intelligence?
Donald Trump 2:38 ↗
Well, I tell you, a good actor can do tremendous in terms of medical. It's already taking place. They're finding solutions to problems that they've never thought even possible. And they're coming up with medical solutions that are incredible. A lot of other things, very positive. And a bad actor is going to get caught. And that's why we have the DOJ. That's why we have the FBI. That's why we have the CIA. A bad actor is going to get caught. But what they signed today means something very... you know, we had the biggest, that was, that was a who's who. I don't know if that's ever going to be assembled again, but that was a who's who of that world, and I think it's a very special day. You know, they almost viewed it as a separate kind of a constitution, and I think they, when they signed that, it meant a lot to them.
Reporter 3:25 ↗
Mr. President, did anything that you heard today, did anything change your mind given the fact that you said you don't want to see guardrails, you don't want to see AI slowed down? Anything that you heard today change your mind on that?
Donald Trump 3:36 ↗
Well, I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing, and they understand that they have to self-police. And it's very hard for somebody to come out and say, get into these, these models are very complex. And again, I believe they're going to be used for the good, and when they're not, we're going to be able to nab them. But there's going to be a tremendous self-policing aspect. We're also thinking about forming a committee of sorts where we put maybe 10 people on that committee. It could be from that group so that we can, so the committee can watch over the whole enterprise.
Reporter 4:07 ↗
You've also indicated that Democrats are talking about concerns about AI as a hoax. Do you believe that after meeting with all these?
Donald Trump 4:14 ↗
Yeah, I do. I think they would love to see it shut down, just like it was a hoax the 12 years for global warming, which they changed right now to climate change.
Reporter 4:23 ↗
Even though Bill Gates says that AI could kill up to a billion people.
Donald Trump 4:26 ↗
Well, now he's not saying that anymore. He said that this Sunday.
Reporter 4:29 ↗
Well, I don't care what he said Sunday because I can tell you yesterday he didn't say that at all. [laughter]
Donald Trump 4:36 ↗
He actually went the opposite. But look, it's one voice. He actually went the opposite. No, we're looking at this for good. It's also maybe the biggest industry. They say bigger than the industrial revolution. Think of it. You know what? We're leading by a lot, and we're going to keep it that way. Maybe the biggest thing there's ever been. It's much bigger than the internet. Now, that's already been proved. The internet was a big thing when it happened. This blows it away. I think Jensen, would you say, would you say something about that?
Jensen Huang 5:05 ↗
Yes, sir. Absolutely. Well, this is, this is the largest industrial revolution in history. And we're going through the single largest infrastructure buildout in human history. And so it's creating a million jobs here in the United States. We have chip plants coming up, computer plants coming up, AI factories coming up. And so it's creating just an enormous amount of jobs. On top of this infrastructure, several hundred billion dollars of venture capital has gone into creating new companies, and all of those thousands of companies are creating lots and lots of jobs.
Donald Trump 5:41 ↗
So he's still a young guy, handsome guy. Look at him. Very handsome guy. But as an example, in a fairly short period of time, he's built, I think, the most valuable, right? Like in the stock market, you know, it's very easy to value the most valuable company anywhere in the world. And it's basically new technology. It's not oil and gas and all the other things that you associate with also a lot of money. It's technology. And this man has done a great job. That man right there has done a great job. You know what he's doing, too? Same thing. And Greg, do you have anything to say about that?

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Zuckerberg, M. (2026, October 1). Trump:"It's Not AI, It's SI" Musk, Huang, Zuckerberg Sign the White House Super Intelligence Accord [Interview transcript]. MJ English. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2972516/

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Mark Zuckerberg. "Trump:"It's Not AI, It's SI" Musk, Huang, Zuckerberg Sign the White House Super Intelligence Accord." MJ English, 1 Oct. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2972516/.

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