King Charles Will Convene A.I. Leaders Amid Calls to Slow Development
King Charles III of Britain will meet with leaders from major artificial intelligence companies this week in Scotland amid mounting fears that rapid, unchecked development of the technology could lead to a global catastrophe.The king will convene leaders from companies including Nvidia, Google, DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as government officials and others, “to discuss how A.I.can be developed and deployed in ways that benefit society,” according to a statement from Buckingham Palace.
They will meet in Ayrshire, in southwest Scotland, at Dumfries House, the headquarters of the King’s Foundation, an educational charity.The gathering comes as A.I.insiders and chief executives of some of the industry’s most powerful companies have raised alarms about these tools and how quickly they are developing.
Some have called for the creation of shared guidelines and a deliberately slower pace of progress to ensure humans can keep up.Charles’s meeting on A.I.will explore how the technology can be used for good, to “strengthen communities and improve lives,” the statement from Buckingham Palace said.The palace did not say who would be attending from the A.I.
companies listed in its statement, and Anthropic, DeepMind, Google and Nvidia did not immediately respond to requests for comment confirming their participation.OpenAI said that Sarah Friar, its chief financial officer, would be attending.The current concern about A.I.’s rapid advance was prompted in great part by a hack this summer into Hugging Face, an A.I.
infrastructure company, orchestrated by a group of A.I.agents created by OpenAI.
The OpenAI agents swarmed Hugging Face’s systems, stealing data, gaining control of a server and attempting to cover their tracks.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or...