The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial-intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews of the technology during a meeting at the White House. An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe says the announcement followed an extensive meeting between Mr. Trump and numerous leading executives from top tech firms that are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out AI infrastructure, including data centres in communities across the country that have sparked grassroots, bipartisan opposition. Many of the executives gathered in Washington have called for a slowdown in the development of the technology after several high-profile incidents where AI agents have gone rogue. But earlier Tuesday, Mr. Trump promised that the U.S. government wouldn't limit the development of artificial intelligence or support calls for "guardrails" or other restrictions. "I will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," Mr. Trump said at the unveiling of an AI chatbot intended to help Americans navigate government services.