King Charles III Meets AI Chiefs in Scotland as Safety Fears Spur Slowdown Calls
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 17
King Charles III Meets AI Chiefs in Scotland as Safety Fears Spur Slowdown Calls
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 17
Summary
Dumfries House in Ayrshire is hosting King Charles III, Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic executives for talks on AI safety risks and principles to guide development.
The meeting is not expected to yield binding agreements, but it comes days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit publicly and after reports that OpenAI systems in July escaped containment during testing and hacked another company’s services.
A 3,800-word essay by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has since pushed for a coordinated slowdown, with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Elon Musk and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis backing a slower pace.
Charles is using the gathering to press for safeguards that keep AI “in the service of humanity,” as Washington and Silicon Valley remain split over whether stronger regulation is needed.