The United Kingdom’s King Charles has warned Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry leaders of the “existential dangers” posed by the technology if it falls into the wrong hands.
The monarch’s comments on Thursday add to a global debate over whether, and how to regulate the industry.
Charles hosted AI giants, including the cofounders of Nvidia and Google DeepMind, along with leaders from OpenAI , Anthropic and at a summit at his Dumfries House estate in Scotland, to address safety concerns before it was “too late” to rein it in.
Cassava Technologies’ Founder and Chairman, Strive Masiyiwa, joined global technology, government and civil society leaders at the AI Summit convened by His Majesty King Charles III at Dumfries House in Scotland, exploring how AI canbenefit society, strengthen communities and improve lives.
“There seems urgency in adequately considering the existential dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands, and being used in potentially catastrophic ways,” Charles told guests at the opening of the conference.
“Those in our world who value our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny,” he told the industry leaders.
“Those who have created these technologies are now increasingly warning that AI risks developing darker capacities, perhaps even to take life,” or be used in “potentially catastrophic ways”, the king also said.
The debate over AI was rekindled when two Anthropic researchers warned that its rapid advances could lead to human extinction in the not-too-distant future.
AI firms have also reported their models escaping their testing constraints to hack into outside networks.
