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Nvidia, with a stock market valuation
of $5.5 trillion (£4.1tn), has received a face-to-face warning from King
Charles during a summit he organised at Dumfries House about the
"existential dangers" of AI to each and everyone of us.
King Charles
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang joined
Anthropic and OpenAI and other executives at the gathering when the King
chose his words carefully when discussing artificial intelligence.
The move follows repeated warnings - from inside the industry - of how
rapid developments in AI are leaving regulatory and governance moves way
behind.
AI Safety Paramount
Huang said immediately afterwards companies must hold a product back,
safety was paramount with constant engineering required.
AI systems required protection so that researchers, universities,
start-ups and countries develop applications "none of us would have
imagined alone," the BBC heard.
"Let us lead with responsible optimism, build AI safely and securely,
open it to more people, expand our ambition and solve the problems that
matter to the world."
Sir Demis Hassabis, co-founder of UK AI lab DeepMind, acquired by
Google, was more cautious. Systems that could be as good as, or better,
than humans at multiple tasks was "probably only a few short years
away."
Darker Capacities
He claimed such general everyday models could have an impact "ten times
that of the Industrial Revolution" but the chance of something wrong was
"definitely non-zero" and required a "sensible middle way" concluding:
"The future is not written yet."
King Charles said those who have created AI technologies are now
increasingly warning of risks of developing "darker capacities" adding
"perhaps even taking life."
There now appeared an urgency in "adequately considering the existential
dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands and being used
in potentially catastrophic ways."
The King concluded: "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.
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