King gave Nvidia boss copy of his speech warning of AI dangers

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorBBCJensen Huang, the pinnacle of the world’s most precious firm Nvidia, says King Charles III personally handed him a duplicate of a speech he delivered in 2023 that included a warning in regards to the risks of synthetic intelligence.”He mentioned, there’s one thing I wish to discuss to you about. And he handed me a letter,” Huang instructed the BBC, talking after receiving the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in a ceremony at St James’s Palace.The letter was a duplicate of the speech delivered by the King in 2023 on the world’s first AI Summit, held at Bletchley Park. In it the monarch mentioned that the dangers of AI wanted to be tackled with “a way of urgency, unity and collective energy”.”It was his speech on AI security. He clearly cares very deeply about AI security,” Mr Huang mentioned.Mr Huang mentioned the King wrote in his speech that he believed within the “unimaginable functionality” of the know-how to rework the UK and the world.”However he additionally desires to remind us that the know-how might be used for good and for evil, and so to verify we do all the things we are able to to advance AI security.”Within the King’s handle he describes the event of superior AI as “no much less vital than the invention of electrical energy”.On Wednesday, Jensen Huang obtained the the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering alongside six different foundational figures in AI, together with Professors Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, who’ve warned that the know-how poses an existential menace to humanity.However US president Donald Trump has urged the AI sector to make speedy fairly than cautious advances within the know-how, and the AI Security Summit was rebranded the AI Motion Summit earlier this 12 months.Jensen Huang obtained the award alongside six different laureates – within the again row (L-R) Yoshua Bengio; the King; Yan LeCunn; Geoffrey Hinton and entrance row, (L-R): Jensen Huang; Fei-Fei Li; Invoice Dally; and John HopfieldSenator Howard Lutnick has discouraged the usage of the phrase security on the grounds that, “It makes us sound like we’re afraid”.Mr Huang’s firm, Nvidia, was valued at $5tn this week. It specialises in superior pc chips together with these which energy AI.Mr Huang added that in his view the UK is in a superb place to reap the benefits of what he described as “an industrial revolution that is taking place proper now.””It is your alternative to know,” he mentioned.Giant US tech corporations together with Nvidia are investing billions of {dollars} in constructing AI infrastructure within the UK, within the type of monumental information centres, which Jensen Huang has referred to as “AI factories”.