Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI

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.”