Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence”

Gary Marcus published a critical commentary dated September 29, 2026, on a White House Accord concerning "Super Intelligence." According to the commentary, Trump described the Accord as a "tremendous" exercise in "self-policing."

The commentary characterizes the Accord's substance in a series of paraphrased points, stating that signatories agree not to be regulated, agree not to give the public a voice, and ask the public to trust them.

Marcus also questions what the word "independent" means in the context of the Accord, asking whether it refers to subcontractors working for other companies that the signing big companies choose, associate with, and may already do business with.

He further asks what happened to the "Pacing" that, he says, everyone was talking about two weeks earlier.

In the closing line of the commentary, Marcus states that Dario, Sam and Elon "all chickened out," without providing further detail on what they withdrew from or declined to do in the text.

The commentary does not include the Accord's full text or name the other signatories beyond the reference to the big companies that signed. It also does not specify the venue, date or participants of the signing beyond the White House reference in the title.