King Charles urges AI leaders to act on 'existential dangers' at Scotland summit
King Charles III urged tech executives at an AI summit in Scotland on Thursday not to "lose control of our destiny," warning that the technology poses "existential dangers" if it falls into the wrong hands. Addressing leaders from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI, plus British government and Vatican officials, the king called for urgent, well-thought-out regulation to prevent "catastrophic" uses of AI, stating that "our humanity must remain sacred" and that the public seeks reassurance about losing control of their "destiny, or our souls." The summit at Dumfries House follows recent calls from major U.S. AI firms to slow development, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal for a pause and a warning of a greater than 10% chance of AI killing all humans. President Trump has dismissed such threats as a hoax, opposing regulation.