Trump mocked for embarrassing spelling error on ‘super intelligence’ pact
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Trump mocked for embarrassing spelling error on ‘super intelligence’ pact
‘That’s absurd no one caught that typo,’ wrote one critic, while another added: ‘If this is Super Intelligence, I’ll pass’
Brendan Rascius in New York Wednesday 30 September 2026 13:53 BST
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President Donald Trump’s freshly inked pact on artificial intelligence contained a glaring spelling error, triggering mockery online.
Signed Tuesday by Trump and the leaders of major tech companies, the “morally binding” pact is designed to put controls on the advancement of AI — which the president renamed “super intelligence” via executive order.
“It’s almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection,” the 80-year-old president told reporters.
But Trump’s Sharpie-scrawled signature came above a conspicuous spelling mistake. Beneath the endorsement, the text read: “President Donald J. Trump, President of the Unites States.”
Social media users were quick to pounce on the error.
open image in gallery“President of the Unites States,” former GOP congressman Justin Amash wrote on X without further comment. Political commentator Brian Krassenstein added: “The jokes write themselves.”
A number of commentators highlighted the irony of the spelling error in an agreement seeking to regulate intelligence.
“Misspelling the name of your own country in a document about super intelligence is an impressive feat,” one commentator wrote on X.
“If this is Super Intelligence, I’ll pass,” another user added, while a fifth chimed in: “That’s absurd no one caught that typo.”
The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.
open image in galleryThe pact, which Trump said would permit companies to perform “tremendous self-policing,” was signed by X’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.
It outlines four “layers of controls and audits” that the seven companies should undertake in order to provide for the safe advancement of AI.
These include implementing “robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models” as well as empowering “an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring and detection are operating as intended.”
While polls indicate many Americans are deeply worried about the development of AI and some insiders have even said the technology could result in the end of humanity, Trump himself has largely downplayed concerns.
On Tuesday, Trump said that Americans cannot “surrender to fears” about AI, adding: “We can’t stifle it.”
When asked by a reporter why the public should trust AI firms to regulate themselves, the president replied: “They don’t want anything to go wrong…If something goes wrong, their companies are at stake.”
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