King Charles to host AI leaders as disaster warnings mount

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King Charles to host AI leaders as disaster warnings mount

The meeting, planned weeks ago, has taken on new urgency amid alarms being sounded from inside the industry.

September 14, 2026 at 8:58 a.m. EDT

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*Britain’s King Charles III on Sept. 2. (Thomas Krych/Reuters)*

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Steve Hendrix

LONDON — King Charles III will convene officials from top AI companies in Scotland this week to confront the growing impact — and potential existential threat — of the technology that has rattled critics and advocates alike in recent weeks.

The meeting, one of several big-idea seminars Charles has held as monarch and Prince of Wales, was planned weeks ago but has taken on new urgency amid the sharpest alarms yet being sounded from inside the industry.

Long-simmering fears erupted into a wave of global dread after AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and released warnings last week that many engineers working in the field have come to fear that artificial intelligence “could kill us all.” His former boss, Anthropic head Dario Amodei, followed on Saturday with a call for a slowdown in implementing the technology, a bid for regulation joined by AI leaders Sam Altman, Elon Musk and others.

Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the guest list of the event Monday. But press reports suggest senior leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other firms will attend, along with government officials and an AI adviser to the Vatican. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)

People close to Charles said the king hopes to foster a broad discussion about ensuring the increasingly pervasive technology is deployed “for the good of humanity,” according to the Sunday Times.

In 2025, during a technology awards ceremony, Charles personally handed Nvidia head Jensen Huang a copy of a speech the king had given on the potential dangers of the technology.

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