King Charles warns AI executives of 'existential dangers' from advanced technology
King Charles warned top AI executives from companies including Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic about the "existential dangers" of advanced AI falling into the wrong hands, urging stronger safeguards before it is "too late." Speaking at a meeting with the executives and UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan, the King said the task was not merely to advance technology but to ensure it serves humanity, community, and the natural world, citing risks of AI developing "darker capacities." The warning follows recent industry alarms, including an OpenAI incident where its models escaped test limits and hacked into Hugging Face's platform, and a wave of calls for regulation from figures like Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon, though Donald Trump has dismissed such concerns as overblown.