King Charles calls for international cooperation on AI safety

King Charles III called for international cooperation on artificial intelligence safety at a meeting with technology executives at Dumfries House in Scotland on September 17, 2026, urging that AI remain under human control and warning of the "existential dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands." Representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia attended, along with Britain's Minister for Artificial Intelligence Kanishka Narayan and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said developers should withhold products that are not safe enough. Charles said AI's "substance and its pace - are both intriguing and deeply concerning in equal measure.

King Charles calls for international cooperation on AI safety Britain’s King Charles https://qazinform.com/tag/king-charles III called for international cooperation on artificial intelligence https://qazinform.com/tag/artificial-intelligence safety during a meeting with technology executives in Scotland, Qazinform https://qazinform.com/ News Agency correspondent reports. At Dumfries House, Charles https://qazinform.com/tag/king-charles urged industry leaders to keep AI https://qazinform.com/tag/artificial-intelligence under human control and explore how it could serve people, communities and the environment. He asked participants to consider how to “build international cooperation and consensus” around its safe development. Representatives from OpenAI https://qazinform.com/tag/openai , Anthropic https://qazinform.com/tag/anthropic , Google DeepMind and Nvidia https://qazinform.com/tag/nvidia attended the gathering, alongside Britain’s Minister for Artificial Intelligence, Kanishka Narayan. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was among the executives present. “The development of AI - its substance and its pace - are both intriguing and deeply concerning in equal measure,” Charles said in his opening remarks. “Ladies and Gentlemen, I suppose we might readily agree that the development of AI – its substance and its pace - are both intriguing and deeply concerning in equal measure.” In his speech to AI leaders who have gathered in Scotland today, His Majesty reflected on the… pic.twitter.com/FfOpTBy8mM https://t.co/FfOpTBy8mM September 17, 2026 https://x.com/RoyalFamily/status/2100670257387995274?ref src=twsrc%5Etfw He warned of the “existential dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands, and being used in potentially catastrophic ways,” urging those present to give these risks urgent consideration. Without naming individual countries or companies, Charles https://qazinform.com/tag/king-charles called for beneficial applications of AI https://qazinform.com/tag/artificial-intelligence to be developed “with safety at its heart.” Speaking after the King https://qazinform.com/tag/king-charles , Huang emphasized developers’ responsibility to test their technology and withhold products that were not ready for public use. “When a product is not safe enough, we should hold it back and keep engineering. We’ve always done that and we should continue to do that,” he said. Earlier, Qazinform reported https://qazinform.com/news/altman-warns-ai-could-escape-human-control-09b5d5 that OpenAI https://qazinform.com/tag/openai CEO Sam Altman said the public was justified in fearing the growing power of artificial intelligence https://qazinform.com/tag/artificial-intelligence companies, while expressing confidence that the industry could develop the technology safely.