King Charles has warned artificial intelligence industry leaders about the "existential dangers" of the technology if it ends up in the wrong hands.

Speaking Thursday at a summit at his Dumfries House estate in Scotland, the monarch hosted cofounders of Nvidia and Google DeepMind, along with leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic, to address safety concerns before it was "too late" to rein in the industry.

"There seems urgency in adequately considering the existential dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands, and being used in potentially catastrophic ways," Charles told guests at the opening of the conference.

"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," he told the industry leaders.

The king also said that those who have created these technologies are now increasingly warning that AI risks developing darker capacities, perhaps even to take life.

The summit in Scotland is not expected to produce any binding agreements. In recent weeks, global figures have weighed in on whether the industry should regulate itself or allow governments to produce guidelines on how the rapidly evolving technology develops.

Source: Al Jazeera