King Charles will convene senior leaders from Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic at an AI summit in Scotland on Thursday, pressing them on shared safety principles and whether the technology can stay under human control, CNBC reported, citing Buckingham Palace.
The gathering will focus on how AI can benefit society and the natural world, and on whether a shared set of principles can guide safer development, according to the Palace account carried by CNBC. Charles will also host senior representatives from Google DeepMind and the U.K. AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, with other attendees convened by the King’s Trust, the Kings Foundation and the Sustainable Markets Initiative.
Speech excerpts shared with CNBC preview the tone. “The development of AI its substance and its pace are both intriguing and deeply concerning in equal measure,” the king will say. “Those 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.”
The Palace said Charles will ask participants about harnessing AI with safety at its heart” and building international cooperation and consensus. The decisions taken at this formative time will shape the world inherited by future generations,” he will add. “And so, 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.
The summit lands amid a sharper public split over pacing. CNBC noted that OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google DeepMinds Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have recently called for a slowdown and more oversight, while President Donald Trump, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang have pushed back against heavier regulation.
Charles previously gave virtual remarks at the U.K.’s 2023 AI Safety Summit. Thursday’s Scotland event is a convening to press principles — not a finished deal sheet. This brief covers CNBCs account of the Palace framing and speech excerpts; it does not invent outcomes or attendees beyond those named in that report.