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30 September
7:23 pm

The president got a pinky promise in this forum that he had with the AI leaders. That's all he got. No commit.

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Xavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

7:23 pm
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Why we checked itBecerra claims that at a White House AI forum, Trump received only non-binding informal commitments ('pinky promise') from AI company leaders — a characterization of what was agreed at a specific government-industry meeting that can be verified against the actual commitments made.
What we foundThe core fact is accurate — the Biden White House obtained only voluntary, non-binding pledges from AI leaders with no enforcement mechanism — but characterising them as a 'pinky promise' with 'no commit' overstates the informality, as the companies did formally commit to eight named obligations in writing at a White House event.
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