From the New York Times, September 17:
The gathering in Scotland brought together industry leaders amid a growing debate about the safety risks of unchecked artificial intelligence.
King Charles III of Britain met with executives from leading artificial intelligence companies in Scotland on Thursday, amid a growing global debate about safety risks created by the technology and whether the pace of development should be slowed down.
Executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies were present, along with government officials and other experts, according to Buckingham Palace.
The king has no legal authority and the event will not produce new public policy. But the meeting was the first international gathering of major A.I. companies since Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, and other industry leaders called for a coordinated slow down in A.I. development over fears that further advancement could lead to a global catastrophe. President Trump and others have said regulation is unnecessary.
“The decisions taken at this formative time will shape the world inherited by future generations,” the king will say in a speech to open the meeting, according to prepared remarks shared by the palace. “The task before you is not merely to advance technology, but to ensure that it remains firmly in the service of humanity, community and the natural world.”
Attending the meeting in Ayrshire, in southwest Scotland, were Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia; Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind; Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s chief financial officer; and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic’s global public affairs officer. Paolo Benanti, an adviser to Pope Leo XIV on A.I., and the heads of the British intelligence agencies MI6 and GCHQ were among other government officials and experts on hand....
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