Trump and AI Leaders Sign Pledge That Misspells 'United States' as 'Unites States'

The error appears directly beneath the president’s signature, while the other signatories and their companies are spelled correctly, according to the report. Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak was among the first to point out the mistake. TechCrunch said it had reached out to the White House for comment.

The announcement followed a White House gathering of top AI leaders, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, to discuss AI advancements. The meeting came just weeks after OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Amodei and Elon Musk called for a deceleration of AI advancements, calls that Trump and Huang rejected. Trump previously said, “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 was described as a middle ground. It maps out ways companies training and deploying frontier models should “ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved,” according to TechCrunch. It includes tapping an independent board for oversight and implementing internal controls. The pledge is voluntary, and there appear to be no legal or regulatory ramifications if a signatory breaks it.

At a press conference after Tuesday’s gathering, Zuckerberg called the accord a “start” that the “whole industry could come to.” He added that “it was sort of a historic conversation.”

Trump also issued an executive order mandating that all government departments and agencies change their phrasing from “artificial intelligence” to “superintelligence” or “SI.”

TechCrunch reported that the spelling error may reflect how much time and attention went into drafting the document before it was signed and released to the public.