King Charles III has warned tech giants of the “existential dangers” posed by artificial intelligence falling into the wrong hands.
He gave the warning during a conference in Scotland on Thursday, according to AFP.
The gathering at Dumfries House brought together senior representatives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Britain’s minister for artificial intelligence.
The debate over the risks of the technology has intensified in recent months, fuelled by several incidents and apocalyptic warnings from industry professionals.
Among the guests at the conference were DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis, the head of American semiconductor giant Nvidia, Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar.
Paolo Benanti, the Vatican’s AI adviser, and Israeli author and historian Yuval Noah Harari were also in attendance.
Buckingham Palace expects the conference to mark the beginning of a process to draw up common principles guiding the development and use of AI.
But no formal agreement is expected at the end of the meeting of tech leaders and other influential figures, which is set to last four to five hours.