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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 17 Sep 202617 Sep 2026<\/p>\n
The United Kingdom\u2019s King Charles has warned Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry leaders of the \u201cexistential dangers\u201d posed by the technology if it falls into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n
The monarch\u2019s comments on Thursday add to a global debate over whether, and how to regulate the industry.<\/p>\n
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Charles hosted AI giants, including the cofounders of Nvidia and Google DeepMind, along with leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic at a summit at his Dumfries House estate in Scotland, to address safety concerns before it was \u201ctoo late\u201d to rein it in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere seems urgency in adequately considering the existential dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands, and being used in potentially catastrophic ways,\u201d Charles told guests at the opening of the conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose in our world who value our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny,\u201d he told the industry leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who have created these technologies are now increasingly warning that AI risks developing darker capacities, perhaps even to take life,\u201d or be used in \u201cpotentially catastrophic ways\u201d, the king also said.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, global figures have weighed in on whether the industry should regulate itself or allow governments to produce guidelines on how the rapidly evolving technology develops.<\/p>\n
In May, Pope Leo XIV said \u2060\u201dthe world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity\u201d and must be \u201cdisarmed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has dismissed concerns about the technology as a \u201choax\u201d.<\/p>\n
Slow the pace of AI development<\/p>\n
Last week, two Anthropic researchers warned that the rapidly advancing technology could lead to human extinction in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n
Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has also called for companies to slow the pace of AI development.<\/p>\n
However, that has prompted an \u2060international debate about whether some executives were trying to get ahead of a possible government backlash and set the rules to keep the lead of particular companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe development of AI \u2013 its substance and its pace \u2013 are both intriguing and deeply concerning in equal measure,\u201d the British monarch said.<\/p>\n
He urged industry leaders to harness it \u201cwith safety at its heart\u201d and \u201cto ensure that it remains firmly in the service of humanity, community and the natural world\u201d.<\/p>\n
The summit in Scotland is not expected to produce any binding agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British monarch highlights AI\u2019s potential darker capacities, urging safety and humanity-focused development. Published On 17 Sep 202617 Sep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[591,59,57,58,50,306,3023,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-europe","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-regulation","tag-science-and-technology","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}