King Charles to Convene AI Executives Amid Threats

King Charles is putting AI's biggest power brokers around one table and asking a basic question: can this stuff be kept on humanity's side? The 77-year-old monarch will host leaders from Nvidia, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and others at Dumfries House in Scotland this week, pressing them to back a common set of principles for using artificial intelligence "for the good of humanity," the Sunday Times reports. The meeting comes as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other insiders publicly warn that rapidly advancing systems could seize control of much of the internet and cause massive economic damage within a year, with some researchers citing a nontrivial risk to human survival.

Britain, like the US, has backed innovation over heavy regulation in the industry, per Reuters, though that could now change. The Ditchley Foundation charity has drafted an AI charter that safeguards human dignity and the planet, which attendees—the UK's AI minister among them—are expected to debate. The king "is hoping to provide a neutral space to aid conversations" on a global issue that will impact all of humanity, as he's previously done with the environment, says a royal source.