King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the UK government, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s new AI minister Kanishka Narayan, and even the head of the UK’s foreign intelligence service. (Paolo Benanti, who advises the pope on AI, was also there). The King’s remarks at the summit were notable because the royal family is usually careful, for constitutional reasons, about veering too deep into political issues — and AI is one of the most hot-button issues in the world right now. The King urged the leaders in the room to find a way to control AI “before it’s too late,” adding that the fast development of this technology — and its “substance” was “both intriguing and deeply concerning.” “AI is already showing immense capacity to improve and save life,” he said, citing medicine and science as an example.
As King Charles wrapped up, he urged leaders to find a way to harness the good of AI and to build international cooperation and consensus to achieve that outcome. (This remark comes after Anthropic shut off access to its Fable and Mythos models to only U.S. customers, shocking the Euro tech scene and leaving many to think about the concept of AI sovereignty). For the King’s summit, OpenAI sent its CFO Sarah Frair while Anthropic sent Tino Cuéllar, who leads global affairs. When reached for comment, Cuéllar said the company was honored to have taken part in the discussion and that it was grateful to the King for “convening industry leaders and voices from across society to discuss the role of AI in serving the public good.” This is not the first time King Charles has spoken about the challenges and benefits of AI, having done so before in 2023 and 2024.
This summit, however, is especially timely as AI continues to dominate every industry, topic, and form of conversation. This month, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for a de-acceleration in AI development, but Nvidia’s Huang and President Donald Trump quickly rejected those calls. For the past year, OpenAI and Anthropic have teased blockbuster IPOs, though OpenAI recently said its IPO plans were stalled this year as concerns over AI safety persist.
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